| Caputo
Pleaded Guilty To Overcharging MTA For
Overtime & Gets 8 Months Jail in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 4 – Thomas Caputo was
charged with using false
overtime to rip off the
Metropolitan Transit
Authority, and thus, the
taxpayers.
On August 26 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Paul A. Engelmayer held a
change of plea proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it.
Caputo was, for a time, the
highest-paid employee of the
MTA.
In 2018 he
racked up $461,000, claiming
3,864 hours of overtime.
On January 4,
2022, Judge Engelmayer held
the sentencing of co-defendant
Joseph Balestra, also with
thousands of hours claimed but
fraud findings limited by what
his phone could prove.
The US Attorney's
Office gave plea deal to
$16,000, with a guideline of
10 to 16 months.
Judge
Engelmayer reviewed the harm
of the crime, the letters for
the defendant, and imposed a
sentence of three months in
jail, to start on March 7,
then three months of home
confinement with GPS, part of
three years of supervised
release.
On February 4,
2022, more: "THOMAS CAPUTO, a
longtime employee of the Long
Island Rail Road (“LIRR”) who
in 2018 was the highest paid
employee of the entire
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (“MTA”) due to
extraordinarily high volumes
of overtime pay, was sentenced
to eight months in prison for
conspiracy to commit federal
program fraud by submitting
time reports falsely claiming
to have worked hundreds of
hours of overtime that he did
not in fact work, including
for time he spent
participating in a bowling
league. CAPUTO
previously pled guilty on
August 26, 2021, before United
States District Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer, who also imposed
the sentence."
The case is US v.
Caputo, et al., 20-cr-645
(Engelmayer)
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