MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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10 Arrested in $1 Billion L.I.R.R. Disability Scheme
By artappraiser on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:28pm |By William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, October 27/28, 2011
Eleven people, including two doctors and a former union president, were charged on Thursday in a “massive fraud scheme” in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability pension claims that could have cost a federal pension agency about $1 billion, according to court papers. [.....]
The federal investigation developed out of reporting by The New York Times for a series of articles published in 2008 that revealed systematic abuses of Railroad Retirement Board pensions by Long Island Rail Road workers. The charges involving the railroad come at a time when public workers’ unions across the country have faced heavy criticism for negotiating pension obligations that have led many government agencies to slash services and lay off teachers, police officers and other workers.....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/nyregion/10-arrested-in-1-billion-lirr-disability-scheme.html
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