NY clerk who swindled more than $1.1M from village forced to give up pension

A thieving administrative clerk from a small upstate New York town has been stripped of her pension – the first time the measure has been taken in the state’s history.

Ursula Stone, 56, swiped a grand total of $1,171,362 from Addison Village's coffers over the course of nearly two decades, according to the Office of the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Under a New York anti-corruption law, Stone had her monthly $1,920 pension forfeited as a result of her conviction. She...