Metro-North scandal
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A Metro-North worker resigned last month after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) caught him having sex with a woman at a New York train station while receiving overtime pay. according to a new report.
Investigators in the MTA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Carolyn Pokorny, noticed that the unidentified driver – a 25-year veteran of the company – was driving an unauthorized woman to the Croton-Harmon station site. (Hudson) three times last spring, according to the report.
On May 16, OIG employees observed the man and the woman “kissing and having intimate contact” in a railway depot “Behind the open door” of his car, according to the document.
privacy in the train yard, just 10-15 feet from the “clear” rails labeled as “No entry, except for authorized vehicles”, occurred in the middle of the man’s overtime shift and lasted 77 minutes, according to GPS data issued by MTA teams.
Thirteen days later, investigators at Pokorny’s office noticed that the man was taking the woman to the same Metro-North facility to “A long lunch”, according to the report.
Investigators caught the driver taking longer lunch breaks than allowed on the MTA property on five other occasions, including a meeting with the same woman that lasted more than three hours.
After several irregularities, in December he was charged with disciplinary charges and resigned. after a January 20 disciplinary hearing, he reported New York Post.
“Metro-North has zero tolerance for stealing time or misappropriating resources for personal use,” said MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan. “This employee was suspended without pay and subsequently resigned and we are considering ways to improve accountability.”
The OIG has launched a fierce pursuit against overtime crooks, amid a long deficit accentuated by declining traffic during the pandemic.
In December, five current and former employees of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) were charged federal fraud after accumulating “overtime” that collectively generated more than $ 1 million, although they did not work.