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Pa. Treasurer Joe Torsella tried to reform the state’s biggest pension funds. Then he lost his job.

Torsella says his clash with the pensions was a rough schooling in a “corrupt system” that too often helps financiers and hedge funds, not the retirees, or taxpayers.

Joe Torsella, ex-Pennsylvania treasurer, at his home in Montgomery County. Torsella pushed for sweeping changes in the state's two mammoth public pension plans.
Joe Torsella, ex-Pennsylvania treasurer, at his home in Montgomery County. Torsella pushed for sweeping changes in the state's two mammoth public pension plans.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer