Mass. Ghost Payrollers To Be Investigated

The Boston Herald reports:

No-show jobs in the construction arm of the MBTA, where workers allegedly pulled lucrative paychecks for doing nothing, are the focus of an ongoing criminal probe by the state attorney general, the Herald has learned.
The investigation comes amid reports of what several sources said is a more sweeping federal probe into misuse of funds in the construction of the $512 million Greenbush commuter rail line.
In the state probe, at least two current and two retired T employees in the construction division have received subpoenas ordering them to appear at grand jury proceedings under way in the Criminal Division of Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office.


The investigation began after state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan identified T employees who were allegedly submitting overtime requests and collecting a full-time salary while performing second jobs.
“One guy was caught golfing out of the state when he was supposed to be working on the Blue Line,” said one source with direct knowledge of the probe.
A second source confirmed that an employee had been caught golfing out of Massachusetts “for a week” while on the taxpayer’s dime.

No word yet from liberals who think government can do things more efficiently.