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Check out the full list of LIRR employees who were paid more than $250,000 last year:
The number of LIRR employees who made more than $200,000 increased by about 40 percent from 2016 t0 2017, according to payroll data found on the Empire Center for Public Policy's transparency ...
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 ...
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.
Caputo racked up $344,147 in overtime in addition to his $117,499 salary. LIRR President Philip Eng came in at No. 24 on the list.
A former LIRR worker has been sentenced to up to 10 months of confinement after pleading guilty to his part in an overtime scam, according to a report in Newsday. (Daniel Hampton/Patch)
MTA overtime controversy. Through Empire's transparency efforts, overtime abuse in the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) was uncovered. Empire discovered that MTA's payroll grew by $418 million in 2018, a large portion of which was from a $119 million increase in overtime.
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived at the Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol. Six of the victims were killed and nineteen others were wounded ...
One hundred and thirty Long Island Rail Road employees made more than $200,000 in 2014, according to payroll data recently added to the Empire Center for Public Policy’s transparency website ...
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.