Tiverton Finds the Source Behind Strange Overtime Numbers
In 2014, Tiverton Fact Check noted that the second-highest-paid employee in town was Police Lieutenant Timothy Panell. In fact, our transparency application shows that he was the second-highest-paid employee for three of the four years for which we have data (we don’t yet have fiscal year 2016), and third highest for the other year, all of them over $100,000. Over those four years, overtime averaged about 30% of Officer Panell’s total pay, but it was around 40% for the two most recent years.
It is therefore not surprising, although still disappointing, to see Tim White of WPRI reporting that Panell has been charged with 58 counts of stealing overtime pay.
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