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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 ...
BLUE POINT, NY — The indictment was unsealed at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for a Blue Point man and four other LIRR workers who face charges involving an ...
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...
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.
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 ...
Carolyn McCarthy filed a $36 million damage lawsuit against the two entities, claiming they failed to provide adequate protection for passengers and should have installed metal detectors and used undercover police officers.
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.
A 2022 review of the department revealed widespread overtime abuse by ranking officers and a drop in arrests. A second audit similarly revealed overtime and extra-duty detail abuses by some of the ...
Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 in compensation. Compared to 2019, 59 workers made at least $250,000 and 10 made at least $300,000. In 2014, no employees made more than $300,000. LIRR ...
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 ...