A CITY worker who retired while under investigation at one city agency is now pulling down more than $100,000 at a second agency.
For years, Peter Stein had one of the sweetest deals in government, collecting one paycheck as a Brooklyn gym teacher and a second as president of the lifeguard-supervisors union.
The dual duties allowed Stein to reel in $180,775 a couple of years ago – $17,976 more than Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was earning at the time.
Exasperated school officials could never make a case against the tenured teacher for double dipping, so they offered a deal: Take a sabbatical at 70 percent salary and don’t come back.
Stein left the education payroll on June 30.
But he didn’t leave his Parks Department gig, where he’s paid $37.55 an hour by the city.
Stein is one of select group of city workers who are paid by taxpayers to perform union work.
Under a wacky agreement negotiated decades ago, Stein is paid as though he’s putting in the same 48-hour week as other lifeguards.
So in fiscal 2004, Stein collected $78,104 in straight time and another $25,788 in overtime – the third most of anyone at Parks.
One official explained the city doesn’t have a choice – federal law mandates OT pay after 40 hours.
Not content with pulling down more than $100,000 for his union duties, Stein filed notice with the city comptroller’s office, saying he intends to sue the city for allegedly revealing to The Post last year confidential details of his sabbatical payout.
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Pleas for leniency submitted on behalf of one of Guy Velella’s co-conspirators may never be made public.
About 30 people, including former city officials and “a prominent sports figure,” sent letters asking authorities to go easy on Manny Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, Velella and Hector Del Toro were snared in a scheme to rig government contracts in return for bribes.
Gonzalez filed his letters during pre-sentencing, which made them court documents not subject to public review after he was sprung from Rikers Island, according to the Department of Investigation.