EDITORIAL BILKING THE PUBLIC PRISON REFORMER MAKES HIMSELF RICH.MAKING money off of taxpayers is way too easy, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the audit of the $33 million paid to the people charged with revamping medical care in the state's prisons See State prison . To begin with, there was the salary of Bob Sillen, the man who was appointed by a judge in 2006 to be the receiver of California's prison system. Sillen was paid $52,000 a month, a sum that many taxpayers would be happy to earn in a year. But that was just the beginning of the shameless shame·less adj. 1. Feeling no shame; impervious to disgrace. 2. Marked by a lack of shame: a shameless lie. bilking of the public treasury by Sillen and his staff. The state Office of the Inspector General Office of the Inspector General (or OIG) is a common sub-agency within cabinet-level agencies of the United States federal government and serves as auditing and investigative arm of the agency's programs focused on identifying waste, fraud and abuse. also found that about two-thirds of the staff earned six-figure salaries, and a dozen made more than $225,000. Sillen's office spent $219,000 to give his employees extra money to buy their own health insurance, even though they got insurance paid through the state, and spent lavishly on meals and reimbursements. Sillen has since been removed by the same judge who appointed him, and replaced with a law professor with an impeccable reputation. But you can bet the conditions that allowed Sillen to bilk bilk tr.v. bilked, bilk·ing, bilks 1. a. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales. b. the public have not been changed. |
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