Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against 10 Additional Long Island Railroad Retirees for Participating in Massive Disability Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney's Office, Railroad Retirement Board, ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to falsely claiming nearly $450,000 in disability benefits from a federal retirement program for railroad workers. Federal officials said ...

This week, eleven people have been accused of defrauding the Long Island Railroad pension fund to the tune of $1 billion. I guess Long Island Rail Road workers don't have the most dangerous job in the ...

A Macon businessman accused of cheating the government was convicted in federal court this week. A jury found Demetris Hill, 54, guilty of one count of theft of government property and one count of ...

Before a vast LIRR cheating scandal jolted the federal railroad disability pension program in 2008, nine in 10 applicants were routinely approved. Six years after revelations of the fraud conspiracy ...

The number of retiring Long Island Rail Road employees applying for disability benefits dropped nearly 50 percent last year from 2011 -- the year that federal prosecutors started going after former ...

The Government Accountability Office has found the Railroad Retirement Board's vetting procedures for total disability claims inadequate. Among its findings, the GAO said the RRB lacks an independent ...

The gravy train is chugging along. A federal railroad board is still handing out disability benefits to almost every LIRR worker who applies — less than three years after a massive scandal revealed ...

A Macon man who retired as a railroad worker was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in the U.S. District Court Wednesday for disability fraud. According to a news release, 58-year-old David ...