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DiNapoli: MTA workers took taxpayers for a ride

Originally published: June 15, 2012 10:50 AM
Updated: June 15, 2012 2:50 PM
By THOMAS ZAMBITO  thomas.zambito@cablevision.com

Passengers board a southbound train headed to New

Photo credit: Angela Gaul | Passengers board a southbound train headed to New York at the Rye Metro-North station. (May 31, 2012)

Six MTA Metro-North employees spent their working hours trolling the Internet for information on guns and Chuck E. Cheese restaurants instead of monitoring train safety, according to an audit of the railroad's on-board service unit released by the state comptroller on Friday.

"The public got taken for a ride," said comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. "When workers in this unit did bother to show...

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