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$570k pension for city lifeguard is just the tip of an iceberg of corruption

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Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after careers with the Department of Education and Parks Department, is just the poster boy for corrupt abuse of New York public-employees benefits — and union leaders’ complete lack of shame at these absurdities is damning.

And that it’s (mostly) completely legal doesn’t make it any less corrupt.

Stein worked as a full-time middle school gym teacher and (since teachers get summers off) as chief lifeguard, crucially also wielding power as a United Federation of Teachers chapter leader and the iron-fisted boss of the lifeguard supervisors’ union, an affiliate of District Council 37.

He left the job amid a Department of Investigation probe over allegations of........

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