A retired Westchester
County police officer has been indicted for allegedly double-dipping from the
state pension fund.
Anthony Sciacca is
accused of stealing more than $163,000 from the State and Local Retirement
System, according to the state comptroller and the Ulster County District
Attorney’s Office.
Authorities
say Sciacca took unlawful
pension payments and forged a required certificate, purportedly issued by the
state Education Department.
The charges filed
against him include scheme to defraud, grand larceny, defrauding the government
and forgery.