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Long Island Rail Road conductors warned for ticket violations

By Trains Staff | October 15, 2021

| Last updated on April 6, 2024

Investigation follows earlier guilty plea by another conductor in ticket scheme

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Long Island Rail Road logoNEW YORK — Eight Long Island Rail Road conductors have received warnings over not properly cancelling and processing tickets gathered on trains, following an investigator triggered by the arrest earlier this year of a conductor who allegedly pocketed tickets to be used by friends or cashed for refunds.

The Long Island Press reports the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Office of the Inspector General and Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office investigators rode trains and found the eight conductors did not turn in tickets used by the investigators or follow other proper ticket procedures. Investigators could not show that the tickets were used for personal gain, leading the LIRR to issue warning letters that future violations would result in disciplinary action.

Former LIRR conductor Robert Anderson pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor earlier this year and paid a $1,000 fine following his arrest for a ticket scheme which originally resulted in four felony counts and 16 misdemeanor charges [see “Former LIRR conductor pleads guilty …,” Trains News Wire, July 29, 2021]. Anderson also resigned from his LIRR job

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