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PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION v. BETTENCOURT

SJC-11906.

474 Mass. 60 (2016)

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION v. EDWARD A. BETTENCOURT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 6, 2016.

Corrected April 29, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul T. Hynes ( Michael R. Keefe with him) for the defendant.

Peter Sacks , State Solicitor ( Judith A. Corrigan , Special Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the plaintiff.

Ian O. Russell & Patrick N. Bryant for Massachusetts Coalition of Police, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present (Sitting at New Bedford): GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

The Commonwealth's law governing public employee retirement systems and pensions requires that a public employee forfeit the retirement and health insurance benefits (retirement allowance or pension) to which the employee would be entitled upon conviction of a crime "involving violation of the laws applicable to [the employee's] office...

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