Actually it was Oregon. One was a community college president retiring with a $280k a year pension when she only earned $240k in salary. How? Because they allowed her to cash in years of sickleave, vacation pay, sabbatical pay, car allowance etc to “goose” her final salary to nearly $400k then based her lifetime pension payout from taxpayers based on that one time goose.
It’s still bigger news in Oregon although I hear Illinois has its own incredible system.