They deserved to be locked up, while riders are paying increasing prices trying to get to work, these sc—–s are living the life of luxury off other workers dollars.
They should get a month in jail for every dollar they ripped off, or even a day for every dollar would do it.

You all figured this out now?!

..I bet there are many Ex LIRR employees who are having trouble sleeping lately..
Just think, three squares and a cot and plenty of time to catch up on your sleep.. You’ll be fine..

Lets see if the Feds EVER get the back bone to investigate the NY Fire Department. Some 97%-plus of their 40-year old retirees claim and get disability pensions totaling $100K plus per year for life. Contrary to popular myth, the vast, vast majority of these retirees have never stepped foot in a burning building in 10-plus years. Instead, they became ‘disabled’ basically riding a desk. The problem is that whenever the issue of the NYFD scam pensions get raise, their union response with a single sentence. The sentence is made up of a noun, a verb, a ’9-11′.
Case closed.

I say leave them alone, they gave the best part of their lives to the service of the LIRR and to the public. With the close public scrutiny they may not be able to live out their golden years without worrying about being discovered.

now is the time to go after the abuse of the nassau county cops abuse of the disability program also. it stinks of corruption!

Hey guys, nice slap in the face to your hard working fellow railroad workers at CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific & BNSF…etc

When you finish cleaning up the LIRR pension fraud, perhaps you can go to Chicago and clean up the MASSIVE fraud in that city. We have union mobsters working ONE DAY for the City of Chicago, and that makes them eligible for 20-year pensions. We have city employees drawing disability retirement, yet working other jobs and building a second pension. Those are just two small examples. There are thousands of scams being perpetrated against the taxpayers of Illinois. Yet, nobody does a darned thing to clean any of it up.

I hope they get the monies back and also throw them all in jail. Dr.s and the workers. Jail and maybe the next person that goes to collect will be for real. And I think they should be made public when some is collecting tax money for disability just so they know that people will be watching.

Now will they go after those who are receiving the monies??

The same nonsense happens with SS disability,as the judges claim they approve 99% of the applicants??
A total disgrace allowed by all our corrupt and do nothing legislators

Didn’t realize a thousand workers are thought of as a “”few”. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars that went along with it. I bet you don’t ride the lirr and pay their insane prices?

Time for Chucky Schumer to step in again and get his mug on TV. I’ve never seen this guy ahead of any scam or problem. He always steps in after the fact and proposes some type of legislation to protect the tax payers or his constituents. It would be nice to see our elected officials be more proactive instead of reactive.

These guys would have gotten away with it forever if they weren’t so damn greedy and demanded to play free golf at NYS public courses. NYS Dept of Parks allows for “disabled” people to play for free with a card from their doctor. But when those “disabled” foursomes are all perfectly healthy retirees from the LIRR, all on a db pension taking up the best tee times, some disgruntled golfers finally said enough is enough and alerted the authorities, This goes on everywhere, amongst countless munincipalities across the country. Forget about OWS, this is where the real corruption lies. Now start looking at the federal RR pension board in Chicago. Rife with corruption.

Union President, Whay am I not surprised?

make them work for nothing until they pay back every cent.

There would be no deficit in the LIRR if only a few of these scams were discovered. This is a big Hot-Air balloon now, but are we going to hear the end of it? Now our corrupt judges and politicians will move in, as for sure they will have a party friend or relative entangled in the pension rip-off.

Just realized this is a Federal case. Loving it even more.

Everyone here seems to be jumping on the easy bandwagon. Most LIRR employees are honest and hard working individuals. They take their responsibilities seriously. Let these few individuals have their day in courts and let them be judged fairly and not by a CBS blog

How about investigating the officials that manages this LIRR pension plan?

Hey! This is a great idea! I’m greeeeen with envy…

To those LIRR employees who have been stealing money from your fellow LIers wallets for decades. Your “entitlement” mentality is deplorable. Your actions are shameful. What makes you think you deserve an easier ride than the rest of us? The MTA has it’s flaws…but you, my fellow Long Island (RR) bothers and sisters, YOU are the crux of the problem.

We maybe didn’t get you yesterday, but we gotcha today!

Besides making sure that only truly disabled people get disability pensions, there is one other giant pension abuse that needs to be fixed.
That abuse is stacking overtime into an employee’s final year, then basing their pension on that year’s eranings to figure out their retirement pay, not the average of their overtime throughout their career..
Right now if someone base pay was $60,000, and on an average year they worked $5,000 overtime, their pension should be based on $65,000.
But the way the system is now, if that same person works for 40 years, avergaing $65,000 for the first 39 years, but in the final year gets extra overtime and earns $100,000, their entire 40 year career pension will be based on $100,000, not the actual 40 year average of $65,875.
So they pay into the pension systembased on a 40 year average of $65,875, but they retire based on the last year’s $100,000.
This means the pension is paying out faster than the employee put in..
This is a larger pension abuse than the disability pension abuse, and it’s spread throughout all levels of local and state governments in NY.
This last year overtime pension abuse is where the real money is being lost.

This is going on all over the US. Starting with the US government. Fraud, fraud and more fraud. Power to the 99%.

Should take a serious look at Metro North as well. My friend George , an office manager, is trying to get a disability pension after damaging his shoulder at home . . . and is being coached by his union how to “win” this false claim.