As reported by Jake Griffin Five former DuPage County Board members were able to take advantage of a quirk in pension rules that only benefitted elected officials to inflate their retirement benefits, costing taxpayers more money.
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund's now-defunct Elected County Officials pension program allowed county board members to convert tenure and salaries at other government jobs into the more lucrative benefit for elected officials.
Though the program ended in 2011, taxpayers will be covering the added costs for decades, as long as current participants are alive.
Former DuPage board members John Case, Kyle Gilgis, Myrene Iozzo, Bill Maio and Dean Westrom took advantage of the program.
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