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Posted on 07/11/2026 2:30:59 PM PDT by CFW
Seven former and one current Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MTBA) employees have been charged with a federal superseding indictment alleging that they falsified records and reports and then fraudulently collected overtime pay. The MTBA, although it collects fares, is heavily subsidized by tax dollars.
According to the Department of Justice, defendants Brian Pfaffinger, Ronald Gamble, Magda Trinh, Jensen Vatel, Nathalie Mendes, Danny Barbosa, and Matthew Leonard have been charged with various crimes, including conspiring to commit wire fraud, falsifying records, and wire fraud.
The defendants were all former Red Line Maintenance of Way employees, per the DOJ. Pfaffinger, Gamble, Vatel, and Mendes had been previously indicted in May 2025 and were arrested that month. Trinh, Barbosa, and Leonard were taken into custody on Friday morning.
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I'm guessing 90 percent. What do you think?
“Authorities have alleged that when they claimed to be doing the inspections, Gamble, Trinh, Vatel, and Mendes were often at employee break areas. Oftentimes, Gamble, Vatel, Barbosa, and Leonard allegedly spent time on private car repairs in the garage at the MTBA facility. Pfaffinger is alleged to have known about the activities of his subordinates and even had them work on his own private vehicle as well.
The indictment states that Gamble submitted overtime requests for some of the other employees despite them not completing their normal shift to allegedly compensate them for work performed on the vehicles during MTBA work hours.”
Our $40T federal debt is basically all from fraud.
Why does the state catch and prosecute this?
Because the state profits.
That is, “Why doesn’t the state prosecute this?”
“Our $40T federal debt is basically all from fraud.”
I think so too. There might have been some fraud before 2008, but Obama gave it the green light, and then Biden’s handlers put it in overdrive. “When the cat’s in a coma, the mice will steal” [slightly amended old saying].
Why does the state catch and prosecute this?
Because the state profits.
The state’s politicians and employees all profit. It’s much like the old story of 20 bank workers all stealing a bit of money from the vault. The thefts are done without each other’s knowledge. However, they will all work together to stymie any investigation by the new bank manager.
How many kids could have been fed with that money?
Is there not a regular audit process in blue states?
Ill gotten gains are a sure way to end up in hell.
“How many kids could have been fed with that money?”
Someone needs to ask Elizabeth Warren a/k/a Pocahontas. Since she has calculated exactly how many children Elon Musk could feed, I’m sure she has those numbers at hand.
“Our $40T federal debt is basically all from fraud.”
“Federal deficit reaches ‘astounding’ levels”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_09c1a2ae-df66-43ca-9092-5be2f4ddc13a.html
” – Only nine months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has already borrowed $1.4 trillion, surpassing the entire federal deficit of the previous fiscal year.
The federal government collected $4.2 trillion over the past nine months and spent or lost a total of $5.5 trillion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report.
During the month of June alone, the nation added $126 billion to the over $39 trillion national debt.
“We will likely borrow $2 trillion or more this fiscal year – an astounding figure given that the economy keeps growing and unemployment is low,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, stated in response to the report.”
My fave are the govt employees up north who get disabled just before retirement, get to claim pension AND disability and then move to North Carolina and brag about it.
“My fave are the govt employees up north who get disabled just before retirement, get to claim pension AND disability and then move to North Carolina and brag about it.”
There are many ways to commit fraud with our tax dollars and government employees know every single one of them.
Probably
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In MA, one of the advantages of a state job is bringing in your relatives. It’s like chain migration…
Overtime and disability fraud are damn near universal among city, county and state employees. It’s been that way for decades. Chicago newspapers regularly run exposés of local govt. employees, esp. cops and firefighters, making hundreds of thousand of dollars annually — all from alleged overtime. And there are ways to jigger one’s salary immediately prior to retirement in order to boost pension payments — including receiving pensions from multiple govt. agencies. It has been ever thus.
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