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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.
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 January 1, 1881, Austin Corbin took over the Long Island Rail Road and sought out to install new rails on the Main Line from Winfield Junction to Jamaica. In February 1881, all service on the Main Line was halted, and this station was temporarily abandoned at this time.
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)
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.
It is the only LIRR line with revenue passenger service in the borough of Brooklyn. The line consists of two sections constructed separately.
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.