A Long Island Rail Road car inspector accused of using a cloned employee ID card to cover up for his absences while working a second job has become the first railroad employee to be fired as the result of a counterfeit time card investigation, officials said Friday.

MTA Inspector General Daniel Cort, in a post on X, announced that the LIRR had terminated "Employee 2," as he was identified in Cort’s 65-page report released last month on a three-year investigation into cloned ID cards at the LIRR. Newsday, through a public records request, identified the worker as Richard Bovell, a road car inspector hired by the LIRR 20 years ago.

Confirming the termination, LIRR President Rob Free in a statement said "corruption will not be tolerated" at the railroad.

"Employees who steal from taxpayers

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