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LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 ...
LIRR President Patrick A. Nowakowski was No. 7 on the 2017 list, with a pay rate of $137 per hour, a $1 per hour raise from 2016. All six employees ahead of him received a pay rate of $48 or $50 ...
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.
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 ...
One employee reported 74 hours of overtime alone per week and was paid over $450,000 for the year. Some Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) employees were using handwritten time records instead of electronic systems, which are easier to track and prevent abuse.
He claimed to have worked 3,864 overtime hours, an average of more than 10 hours of overtime for all 365 days the year. Phone, bank, email, and other records revealed many of these hours were fraudulent: Caputo was clocked in during vacation and while attending outside social events such as a bowling league.
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 ...
The Kew Gardens train crash (also known as the Richmond Hill disaster) was a collision between two trains on the Long Island Rail Road 's Main Line, which occurred during the evening rush hour of November 22, 1950. The trains collided between Kew Gardens and Jamaica stations in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, killing 78 people and injuring 363.
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...
List of Long Island Rail Road stations. 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. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of ...