'Rampant time abuse': Report finds LIRR workers used fake ID cards in fraud scheme

Three dozen Long Island Rail Road workers involved in a "rampant time abuse" scheme used counterfeit employee identification cards to fraudulently collect wages for hours they never worked, according to the findings of a nearly three-year investigation by the MTA watchdog.

The probe by the office of Metropolitan Transportation Authority inspector general Daniel Cort has already led to multiple suspensions, resignations and other pending disciplinary sanctions against the 36 LIRR workers, seven of whom were supervisors, investigators said.

Although the names of the implicated employees were redacted in the report , Newsday obtained a list of their identities through an open records request and found it to include several of the LIRR’s highest overtime earners in recent years, includi