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 ...

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 ...

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 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 head of the Long Island Rail Road says the company has no role in the granting of federal disability pensions worth hundreds of millions of dollars to its retired employees and says the practice ...

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 ...

Eleven people, including two doctors and seven retirees, participated in a long-running disability-pension scheme that had the potential to defraud the U.S.'s biggest commuter railroad of up to $1 ...

NORFOLK, Va.-- Jeffrey A. Ratliff, 60, of Chesapeake, pleaded guilty today to charges of theft of government property related to claiming over $447,000 in disability benefits from the U.S. Railroad ...