Nice work if you can get it - a State Job

From the Lower Hudson Valley, NY The Journal News:

Probe promised in �no-work� case
February 5 A key lawmaker said he�ll look into a claim by an $93,803-a-year state employee that he has been given virtually no work to do for most of the past decade.

Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Joseph Morelle, D-Irondequoit, said he�ll ask the executive director and the chairman of the State Insurance Fund to respond to charges by Randall Hinton that he isn�t working in exchange for his paycheck.

Hinton, who didn�t return several phone calls Thursday, told the Albany Times Union that �I just sit here�� while on state time.

Bob Lawson, a spokesman for the fund, said Hinton does work and does a satisfactory job. He also said that Hinton has been offered other jobs that he has turned down.

Hinton told the paper he is being retaliated against for suing then-Gov. George Pataki in 2002, claiming bias because of his Native American heritage.

Classic corrupt politics. My W.A.G. is that there was some substance to the suit so this job is how they bought him off. Of course, this only serves to encourage others from doing the same thing. Hinton is one example, how many like him are quietly buffing their Facebook page and snoozing on the taxpayers dime...