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Ex-engineer pleads guilty in LIRR disability case

Originally published: January 16, 2013 2:01 PM
Updated: January 16, 2013 9:40 PM
By JOHN RILEY  john.riley@newsday.com

A file photo of the LIRR tracks near

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | A file photo of the LIRR tracks near the Jay switching station on the west side of Jamaica train station. (Sept. 30, 2011)

Former Long Island Rail Road locomotive engineer Gregory Bianchini pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to disability fraud Wednesday, the latest in a stream of retirees to admit to being part of a conspiracy to rip off the federal Railroad Retirement Board.

Bianchini, who worked for the LIRR for 29 years until retiring in 2003, faces up to 75 years in prison on conspiracy and fraud...

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