Hello Ed, I support Bill Baroni’s idea that politicians who are charged with improper actions or indicted for crimes while in office should not receive any pay while their trials are going on. Politicans very seldom get charged with something, so when they are, there’s got to be some substance to it. If they are found not guilty, they will get their back pay when the trial’s over.

Hangman

Normally I would disagree with punishing someone before they are found guilty — you know, the whole innocent until proven guilty thing. But we are talking about New Jersey politicians here. So I agree in this case: Any indicted politician gets his/her pay yanked... and the pension goes, too. All of it!

— Ed. Note