Comptroller nabs four Southern Tier attorneys
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- June
- 13
  The flap over service credits for the New York State and Local Retirement System has hit the southern tier, with Thomas DiNapoli announcing that he revoked membership in the plan for three attorneys and rescinded the southern credit for another lawyer. The actions are part of his ongoing review of the Retirement System.
  The four attorneys involved are all part of the same Johnson City law firm. DiNapoli revoked membership for Edward Sarzynski, Michael Surwoka and Wendy DeWind. He revoked service credit for John Lynch. The Boards of Cooperative Educational Services and school districts incorrectly reported the attorneys as employees when they actually worked as independent contractors, who aren’t eligible to be in the system.
  Here are some specifics:
  —Sarzynski was incorrectly reported as an employee by Maine-Endwell Central School District in Broome County for 28 years.
  —Cattaraugus, Allegany, Erie, Wyoming BOCES; Broome-Tioga BOCES; and Chenango Forks Central School District incorrectly reported Suwoka as a part-time employee for periods ranging from one month to eight years.
  —DeWind was incorrectly reported by Walton Central School district in Delaware County as a part-time employee for six years.
  —Lynch was incorrectly reported by Broome, Delaware, Tioga BOCES for eight years, and Cattaraugus, Allegany, Erie, Wyoming BOCES for six months.Â
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
