{"id":177454,"date":"2021-02-13T03:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mta-overtime-kings-are-looking-more-and-more-like-mobsters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T03:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:27:40","slug":"mta-overtime-kings-are-looking-more-and-more-like-mobsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mta-overtime-kings-are-looking-more-and-more-like-mobsters\/","title":{"rendered":"#MTA overtime kings are looking more and more like mobsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#MTA overtime kings are looking more and more like mobsters<\/strong>”
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . The alleged overtime pay conspiracy by a group of MTA workers looks even more like organized crime than we\u2019d thought.<\/p>\n

The five co-defendants each pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d Wednesday to the two-count indictment of conspiracy and federal program fraud. But federal prosecutors promised to deliver evidence that shows them \u201crepeatedly covering for one another\u2019s absences from work\u201d: 48,000 pages worth of cell-site data, financial documents, MTA records and more.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s on top of the fact that two of the five accused are sons of convicted mob figures. Frank Pizzonia\u2019s father was a Gambino crime family captain who served 15 years in prison for plotting to kill a couple who had robbed his social<\/a> club. Joseph Balestra Jr. is the son of a notorious weapons dealer to four New York City crime families, convicted in the \u201990s after supplying weapons to mobsters involved in narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting, truck hijacking and armed robbery.<\/p>\n

Pizzonia accumulated $189,297 of overtime pay as an LIRR track worker in 2019 alone. Meanwhile, Balestra Jr. collected $241,000 of OT in 2018, the equivalent of eight hours of extra pay per weekday.<\/p>\n

The overtime con spanned multiple years, prosecutors charge, as the fraudsters helped each other collect wages while bowling, vacationing and chilling at home over 40 miles away.<\/p>\n

And this is still likely the tip of an iceberg first charted nearly two years ago when the Empire Center for Public Policy first blew the whistle<\/a> on outrageous MTA overtime. The real question is: How many gangsters haven\u2019t been nabbed yet?\n <\/div>\n

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“#MTA overtime kings are looking more and more like mobsters” If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . The alleged overtime pay conspiracy by a group of MTA workers looks even more like organized crime than we\u2019d thought. The five co-defendants each pleaded \u201cnot guilty\u201d Wednesday to the two-count…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/mta.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[92929,43,76866,71452,86935,77737],"class_list":["post-177454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-12-21","tag-editorial","tag-lirr","tag-mta","tag-organized-crime","tag-overtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}