5 current and former MTA workers charged with overtime fraud
Five former and current employees of the MTA fraudulently put in for “almost physically impossible” overtime hours that netted them hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra income, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges.
Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss and other authorities said the men, four of whom were with the Long Island Rail Road and one with New York City Transit, put in for overtime in 2018 for hours when they were at their homes or other locations, and even on vacation.
The men claimed “extraordinary, almost physically impossible, amounts of overtime,” Strauss said in a statement. “Those almost impossible claims were fueled by brazen, repeated fraud, including falsely claiming to be working overtime hours while the defendants were at their homes or, in some instances, bowling.”