NEW YORK : Looting of Dead Tied to ‘Overtime Kings’

Two brothers who earned a fortune in overtime last year--a total of $250,000--are accused of stealing from the dead. A police spokesman alleged that doctors’ assistants Joseph and Larry Savino, known as New York’s “kings of overtime,” were caught taking a gold ring with a small diamond and hundreds of dollars in cash from the scenes of two suicides. City officials said they were among the top overtime earners in 1995, to the tune of $132,431 and $122,235, respectively. They have been suspended without pay from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and charged with petty larceny and official misconduct.