The latest employee overtime scandal engulfing the Long Island Rail Road still shocks, but it can no longer be surprising that fraud continues.

According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s inspector general, 36 LIRR employees — including seven supervisors — were involved in a sprawling effort to falsify time records and abuse the railroad’s system, allowing them to rack up overtime fraudulently. They created fake identification cards, no-shows shared their real ID cards with colleagues so they could sign them in, and others left worksites midshift while still being paid.

Time management abuses at the LIRR are egregious actions that hurt taxpayers and riders alike. Most LIRR workers do not abuse the system but those who do or look the other way reflect poorly on the entire ope

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