Feds Investigating Lirr Overtime Records, Including $461K For One Worker, Report Says
Federal prosecutors have launched a probe into Long Island Railroad overtime pay following recent reports that the MTA paid out more than $400 million in overtime last year, including one LIRR employee who pocketed more than $460,000.
Prosecutors have subpoenaed pay records for a recently retired LIRR official, Thomas Caputo, a former chief measurement operator, who allegedly took in $461,646 in overtime pay, according to the Empire Center, prompting further investigation.
Caputo’s overtime pay was more than what New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio earned last year, accordin…
Man Killed By Metro-North Train In Westchester Wanted In Brutal Murder Of Girlfriend, Teen Boy
A man who was struck and killed by a Metro-North train in Westchester had reportedly just violently murdered his girlfriend and her teen son.
Hector Cruz, 51, of the Bronx, who has been identified as the person who was killed after he jumped in front of the Metro-North train in Hartsdale Sunday morning, Feb. 17 was a "person of interest" in the weekend murders of his girlfriend, Marisol Ortiz, 51, and her 14-year-old son, Alanche Delorbe, according to New York City Police.
Cruz jumped in front of the train around 10 a.m. Sunday in Hartsdale, confirmed Metro-North officials.
Ortiz and …
