Mr. Ney, despite a criminal record, will be able to begin collecting a Congressional pension of about $30,000 a year in a decade, when he turns 62.
This has always bugged me. Ney and others convicted of crimes while holding office are still able to collect a pension. I say there needs to be some kind of legislation passed to stop this. They deserve NOTHING.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - Representative Bob Ney is headed to prison early next year after pleading guilty to charges of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal gifts from lobbyists. Until then, Mr. Ney, a six-term Republican from Ohio, has a comfortable place to bide his time.

Mr. Ney’s brass nameplate remained Wednesday on the wall outside his office in the Rayburn building just across the street from the Capitol.
His Congressional office - the one that he has effectively acknowledged selling to the highest bidder - is open for business.

“The office of Congressman Bob Ney,” his telephone receptionist said in a cheery voice Tuesday morning, as if nothing had happened to her boss, the first member of Congress to confess to crimes involving the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Mr. Ney’s brass nameplate still hangs on the wall next to the heavy wooden doors of Room 2438 in the Rayburn House office building, just across the street from the Capitol, and it is likely to remain there for at least a few more weeks.

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