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NEW YORK — Hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees might have cheated their way to big pensions through a $1 billion fraud by paying off doctors to say they were unable to work, authorities said.
Authorities said Thursday that some supposedly disabled retirees were spotted regularly playing tennis and golf, shoveling snow and working out. Eleven people, including two orthopedists and a former union official, have been charged with conspiracy in a decade-long fraud that authorities say poisoned the pension system used by employees of the nation’s largest commuter railroad.
