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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 ...
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 ...
Peggy Spellman Hoey, Patch Staff. Posted Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 9:43 pm ET. A former LIRR worker has been sentenced to up to 10 months of confinement after pleading guilty to his part in an...
Website. www .rrb .gov. The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board ( RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 [2] to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers. The RRB serves U.S. railroad workers and their families, and administers ...
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.
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 ...
1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting. 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.
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...
The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York. It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1] It consolidated several other companies in the late 19th century.
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...