FBI: 10 more charged in LIRR pensions case

A train arrives to the Astor Place station early Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 in New York. (AP Photo/ Dima Gavrysh)

  Eyewitness NewsLONG ISLAND -- The FBI says 10 more workers are charged in New York's alleged Long Island Rail Road disability pension scam.

FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald confirms that six of those charged were arrested Tuesday morning on Long Island. He says one arrest has been made in Florida.

Authorities in October said that hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees may have cheated their way to big pensions through a $1 billion fraud by paying off doctors to say they were unable to work.

Eleven people were charged with conspiracy in October, including two orthopedists and a former union official.

The LIRR's president has said the Railroad Retirement Board acted as a rubber stamp without consulting the railroad. The LIRR has cooperated with authorities.

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