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BLUE POINT, NY — An LIRR worker from Blue Point was named among the five MTA workers who face federal criminal charges in an overtime scam, Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss ...
Twelve LIRR employees topped a $300,000 paycheck in 2017 compared to eight in 2016, data shows. In 2015, just four employees made that amount. In 2014, no employees made more than $300,000.
Former Rocky Point resident John Nugent, a 50-year-old former LIRR crew foreman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted he collected about $34,000 in bogus overtime pay back in July and...
The Inspector General employs auditors and investigators to detect any waste, fraud, or abuse in the benefit programs. Long Island Rail Road disability controversy. In contrast to the single disability program offered by Social Security, Railroad Retirement offers two types of disability annuities. The Total Disability, or "Disability Freeze ...
In 2021, LIRR employee and track inspector Thomas Caputo and co-conspirators John Nugent and Joseph Balestra were federally convicted for large-scale overtime fraud. Caputo was paid approximately $461,000 in 2018, of which $344,000 was supposed overtime.
Nineteen LIRR workers made at least $300,000 in 2020, according to the payroll data from the Empire Center for Public Policy.
The LIRR's history stretches back to the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, incorporated on April 25, 1832 to build a ten-mile line from the East River in Brooklyn through the communities of Brooklyn, Bedford, and East New York to Jamaica.
The group is accused of claiming to work overtime hours in 2018 when they were actually not working but rather they were bowling, on vacation, or attending concerts, according to the complaint.
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.
A LIRR employee from Rocky Point admitted to siphoning $34,000 in false overtime. The Long Island bull is still making headlines. Local libraries are finding new ways to help patrons since the ...