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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 ...
ROCKY POINT, NY — A former Long Island Rail Road supervisor, who was one of five indicted in an overtime scam and among the highest paid MTA employees, has been sentenced to five months in ...
43 LIRR Workers Made Over $250K In 2020: New Payroll Data - Patchogue, NY - Nineteen LIRR workers made at least $300,000 in 2020, according to the payroll data from the Empire Center for Public...
The report found no fraud or wrongdoing, but noted that in "prior work, we found that numerous claims with evidence from the same doctors can be an indicator of potential fraud or abuse"; unlike sister agency Metro-North Railroad, LIRR disability evidence was provided primarily by one of three doctors.
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.
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.
One employee reported 74 hours of overtime alone per week and was paid over $450,000 for the year. [31] Some Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) employees were using handwritten time records instead of electronic systems, which are easier to track and prevent abuse.
NORTHPORT, NY — Raymond Murphy, a Northport resident who retired from the Long Island Rail Road, earned more than $280,000 last year, more than half of which came from overtime, according to the...
The LIRR's steam passenger locomotives were modernized from 1901 to 1906, and by 1927, it was the first Class I railroad to replace all its wood passenger cars with steel. [2] In 1926, the LIRR was the first U.S. railroad to begin using diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive was a G5s operated until 1955. [2]
Anthony M. DeStefano updates us on the case against former Long Island Rail Road supervisor John Nugent who admitted in federal court on Tuesday to a conspiracy to defraud the railroad in an ...