Randy Smith’s resignation was part of plea deal after attack on podcaster Bobby Couvillion at a Madisonville restaurant
A suburban New Orleans sheriff who had held one of his community’s most prominent political offices for a decade has retired shortly after pleading guilty to battering a podcaster who often criticized him.
Randy Smith, 61, also agreed to serve more than a year of probation after admitting to a late May beating at a steakhouse where he had bought 18 alcoholic beverages on his tab on a Friday afternoon – which all but halted his four-decade policing career.
Smith had been sworn in as the elected sheriff of St Tammany parish, Louisiana, on 1 July 2016, succeeding a predecessor who eventually pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and was separately convicted of serial child sexual molestation.
Not all pensions work like that. Government pensions especially. Some work like you accumulate time in service and once you hit the threshold (typically 20-30 years) then they’ll pay you for the rest of your life. Often comes with healthcare too. Not sure how it works for NOLA police though.
What you’re describing sounds more like a retirement account.
I worked in the park service for a bit. Money was drawn from my paycheck automatically to fund the pension. You got the rest right though.
As for Healthcare, you do get to keep that, but we still had to pay for it. Pretty good price though.
The 401k was entirely separate