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15 March 2007
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Brockton Police Department, MA

Ethics panel probes Lincoln ca

Former Brockton police Lt. Charles Lincoln violated the state conflict of interest law to boost his pension to $140,000, the State Ethics Commission's enforcement division alleges.

The commission's enforcement division, in a six-page finding, found that Lincoln inflated his retirement by using his public positions to use sick time to hold both jobs. The investigators alleged he called in sick to one job to work another.

“Those unwarranted privileges were not otherwise properly available to similarly situated public employees,” Karen Beth Gray, deputy chief of the enforcement division, wrote in the finding.

The Ethics Commission will hold a hearing on the allegations to decide what action — if any — should be taken.

Carol Carson, spokesman for the commission, said today a motion has been filed to postpone any action until other cases lodged against Lincoln are resolved. He could be fined $2,000 per violation.

Lincoln already faces federal mail fraud charges in connection with the pension payout and the Plymouth County Retirement Association voted 3-0 last month to cut his pension by nearly $18,000.

Authorities allege Lincoln boosted his retirement to a county record of $140,000 by calling in sick to his night job as a Brockton cop then worked as director of security for at the Plymouth County jail. for three years.

He combined the salaries to boost his pension.

Lincoln's attorney, Thomas Drechsler, has said his client did nothing wrong and followed past practice and procedures at his jobs.

It was common practice at the police department for officers nearing retirement to use up sick time that could not be sold back to the city. There is no record Lincoln was ever disciplined by the department for alleged sick-time abuse.

Lincoln rolled his police pension over to the county plan, then officially retired from the sheriff's department.
 

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