PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
[From Paul Soto] I want to share with you an experience I share with my son on a daily basis related to my mobile device. Since 2007, I've enjoyed the experience working and playing on the tablet form factor. I...
PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
[From Paul Soto, Tucson, Arizona] If I hadn't been given a Palm III in 2001 to boost my productivity from a Day planner, I wouldn't be experiencing the joy of mobile technology while getting a start-up on its feet. The...
Workers Comp Insider (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
When Paul Soto joined the NYPD in 1993, he was 25 years old and weighed 250 pounds. Ten years later, his weight ranged well above 300 pounds. As you might expect, he was having difficulty performing the essential functions of his job. He applied for disability retirement; pending review of his application, he was placed on light duty, which kept...
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Inspired by a recent story about retired NYC police officer Paul Soto, who tried to increase his pension by claiming his career-ending injuries were sustained while on duty, and were not connected to his weighing 500 lbs. The judge...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 01/19/2008
This week's story about a 500-pound retired NYPD cop trying to get more dough (the green money kind) inspired The Late Show with David Letterman's Thursday night top ten list. Retired cop Paul Soto, who wears a 6-foot-long belt, has been receiving disability payments (equal to half his pay) as his narcolepsy, hypertension and morbid obesity prevented him from working his job. He boldly tried to prove...
mister pissed (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
Judge backs finding that retired cop’s injury was due to his obesity NEW YORK - A retired 500-pound police officer cannot increase his pension check by blaming his disability on an accident, because a medical board had already found it was related to his obesity, a judge said. Paul Soto, 40, had requested a larger retirement pension, claiming that a fall at an apartment while on duty injured his knee...
Nobody's Business (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
As far as I'm concerned, 500-pound cop Paul Soto can stuff his gob as much as he likes — it's a free country. At that preposterous weight, however, he shouldn't expect to be on a police force payroll, sucking down taxpayers' money — unless he's prepared to be habitually dropped onto unsuspecting evildoers by means of a crane or a giant catapult. I'd be willing to consider that.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
When retired cop Paul Soto joined the force in 1993, he weighed a svelte 250 pounds. He now weighs over 500 pounds and is living off disability payments since maladies like narcolepsy, hypertension and, yes, morbid obesity, made his desk job unbearable. In 2006, he left the force, living off benefits which equal half his old paycheck, tax-free. But had his disability resulted from activity in the...
Hog On Ice (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
Eat Yourself Rich Looks like Drudgebart's readers are still doing good work, sending in links to amusing stories. Today's honey is about a New York cop--one Paul Soto--who weighs 500 pounds, injured his knee outside of his doctor's office, and...
Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
Obesity isn't just a problem for Biglaw lawyers who don't get to the gym enough. From the New York Post : He weighs more than 500 pounds, but that wasn't enough to tip the scales of justice for ex-cop Paul Soto. The rotund retiree lost his legal argument that it was a line-of-duty fall outside a doctor's office that cost him his NYPD career. A judge says it was actually his "morbid obesity." "There's...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
A Manhattan judge has said "fat chance" to Paul Soto's push to beef up his disability benefits, backing a pension board ruling that his "morbid obesity" is to blame for his career-ending knee injury - not an on-duty stumble over a pesky wooden pallet.
