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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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