Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Additional Long Island Railroad Retiree for Participating in Massive Disability Fraud Scheme
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Martin J. Dickman, Inspector General of the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB-OIG), Janice K. Fedarcyk, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Barry L. Kluger, Inspector General of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA-OIG), announced charges today against Donald Alevas, the former LIRR director of shop equipment, engineering, and environmental compliance, in connection with his participation in a massive fraud scheme in which Long Island Railroad (LIRR) workers allegedly claimed to be disabled upon early retirement so that they could receive disability benefits to which they were not entitled. Alevas was arrested this morning and will be presented in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman this afternoon. He is the 22nd person to be charged in connection with this scheme. Other defendants inc...