In a move that can only be described as retaliatory, the employee pension board opted to cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars out of nothing short of a vendetta. Yesterday, the employee pension board voted to deny Ofc. Kocenda's pension in what appears to be a retaliatory act for Kocenda's pending litigation against the city and broke apart the parameters for a settlement of one of Kocenda's lawsuits. Kocenda's attorney and outside attorney James Reiter had the tentative framework for the beginning of a settlement that Kocenda's counsel offered that would have saved the city hundreds of thousands of additional dollars by placing Kocenda into the city pension plan due to his medical condition as a result of an injury sustained while at work. The pension board decided to split hairs and narrowly interpret a clause in the pension language to attempt to find any legal basis for them to torpedo the action, an interpretation Kocenda's attorneys disagree with.