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Axed Turnpike Boss can get Small Pension

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission chairman fired by Gov. Ed Rendell can receive a maximum annual state pension of about $6,100.

The estimated figure is an Associated Press calculation based on information provided by the State Employees' Retirement System under a Right-to-Know Law request.

The part-time job paid $28,500 annually and Mitchell Rubin served on the commission for nearly 11 years.

Rendell ousted Rubin from the job on Monday citing "overwhelming" evidence that he accepted a no-work contract from a state senator for $150,000.

The contract was described in the recent corruption trial of former state Sen. Vincent Fumo of Philadelphia.


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