(TUE) The New York Times reported that New York State had all but concluded its 18-month investigation of the fact that nearly all Long Island Rail Railroad retirees applied for and got disability payments soon after retirement, at a collective cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.The newspaper noted that, despite subpoenas of doctors, insurance companies, railroad executives and every worker who retired in 2009, the state attorney generals office brought forward just one criminal case, and that was dropped last month.Also involved in the investigation was the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which reported that, as of last April, LIRR retirees applied for disability at a rate 12 times of other railroads; that only three doctors handled most of the claims; and that 64 of 66 claims were approved. (ffd: New York Times)
