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Paterson: Congress should probe LIRR disability plan

Gov. David A. Paterson yesterday asked Congress to launch an investigation into possible abuses of a federal disability compensation plan by employees of the Long Island Rail Road.

Paterson's call came on the same day that a member of the obscure federal agency that has been recently criticized for rubber-stamping LIRR disability claims spoke out against "an outdated ... system that desperately...

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