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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) has agreed to conciliate a disability discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC), the federal agency ...

Railroad trestles, a stream and wildfire smoke in Idaho. (Chris Marshall/CNS) WASHINGTON (CN) — The refusal to reopen a benefits determination by a board that oversees decisions on railroad workers’ ...

Railroad Company Refuses to Allow Employee Who Once Had Brain Tumor to Return to Work as Custodian, Federal Agency Charges CHICAGO - Union Pacific Railroad Company is violating federal law by refusing ...