Originally Posted by
StarBiker
The 411K Rail worker? It was 461K......and they were charged with fraud
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The huge overtime payments made to Mr. Caputo and other M.T.A. employees were revealed a month earlier by the
Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank in Albany. Its research showed that 33 M.T.A. employees earned more than $300,000 in 2018, with almost all receiving large amounts of overtime pay.
Each defendant was charged with one count of federal program fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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That's small potatoes compared to the theft of public money by investors and executives of private companies. And they don't get 10 years.