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Category Archives: LIRR Scandal
‘Disabled’ LIRR Workers May Lose Free Golf Perk
The icing on the cake of the NY Times’ September expose about LIRR retirees living on falsified disability claims was the free golf. How do these “disabled” railroad workers spend their endless free time? By enjoying golf on state-park golf courses–on … Continue reading
Slip-Sliding Away
Fearing that too many riders thought “Slippery Rail” was the reason LIRR workers gave for their bum knees and sore backs on their disability forms, the MTA issued printouts on Metro-North yesterday informing riders of the autumnal peril alternately known as … Continue reading
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LIRR Disability Scandal: Managers Sold Disability Pointers to Staffers
Long Island Railroad management sold tips on getting bogus disability claims OK’d to railroad workers, reports today’s NY Times. A far-reaching investigation into the legitimacy of disabilities at the Long Island Rail Road took a new turn on Monday as … Continue reading
LIRR Disability Plot Thickens
If Walt Bogdanich and his crew don’t get a Pulitzer for their work on the dodgy LIRR employee claims, I’m donning full conductor gear–train belt buckle and all–and jumping into the Hudson in February. The NY Times’ latest dive into … Continue reading
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Proposal: ‘Disabled’ LIRR Workers Have to See Real Doctor
The Times had this Friday: the federal Railroad Retirement Board, which approves disability payments for any LIRR veteran who can probably utter and spell his name, may soon require that these train workers actually see legit doctors who can vouch … Continue reading
LIRR Creates ‘Internal Compliance Unit’ to Combat Disability Fraud
Calling for an emergency meeting yesterday to address the ridiculous number of LIRR retirees living on fat disability pensions, LIRR president Helena Williams announced the creation of an “internal compliance unit…to work more closely with the federal government; additional ethics training for … Continue reading
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LIRR Outlines Reform For Shoddy Disability Policy
LIRR president Helena Williams will step to the podium in Queens this afternoon to outline “a series of reform measures” meant to combat the ridiculously high rate of retiring railroad folk collecting fat disability payments. Williams will speak at 1 … Continue reading
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LIRR-DISABILITY SCANDAL: FBI Raids Retirement Board’s L.I. Office
On Day Three of the Long Island Railroad/Employee Disability Scam Scandal (LIRREDSS), federal agents raided the Westbury offices of the Railroad Retirement Board, the shady federal organization that signs off on railroad employees’ dodgy disability claims. What a scene it … Continue reading
LIRR-DISABILITY SCANDAL: Rethinking ‘I’ve Been Working on the Railroad’
A very special dedication to every not-that-disabled former LIRR employee who’s enjoying a nice round of golf on a pleasant fall day as the rest of us working stiffs work. I’ve Been Shirking on the Railroad I’ve been shirking … Continue reading
LIRR-DISABILITY SCANDAL: One Metro-North Conductor’s Take
I chatted up the friendly conductor on the ride out of Hummerville today, asked him if he’d been following the LIRR-disability scandal. He had. He said his LIRR cousins had a pretty plum deal. “Looks like I picked the wrong … Continue reading
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