The practice of pension spiking was highlighted by the recent revelation that former Upland, California, city manager Robb Quincey made $460,000 last year.

A former postal union officer from Hawthorne, New Jersey, accused stealing more than $780,000 from the union's payroll account was recently sentenced for the crime, according to The Record.

New York City's time and attendance software project, CityTime, drew more negative attention recently as the company overseeing the project, Science Applications International Corporation, announced that it had fired a senior employee for payroll fraud.

In response to high overtime payments identified in a 2009 payroll audit by then-Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee, the Missouri Department of Mental Health recently reviewed its overtime procedures.

Former Maud, Oklahoma, employee Justin Horton recently pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement after stealing more than $50,000 in city funds between April 2007 and November 2009, according to the Shawnee News-Star.

The city manager of Woodland, California, recently announced that the local fire department will be receiving a $1.2 million grant in order to add six more firefighters to its payroll for a three-year period, according to the Woodland Daily Democrat.

The Alabama cities of Mobile and Jacksonville were recently prevented from applying a recently enacted state law regarding union employee payroll deductions after a preliminary injunction was granted by a federal judge.

A volunteer fire department treasurer for the town of East Haven, Vermont, recently turned herself in to local police after an independent audit uncovered an alleged embezzlement scheme.

Police officers in Jersey City, New Jersey, earned $6.6 million in overtime last year, with the five top earners bringing home more than $50,000 each, the Jersey Journal reports.