Last Of MetroCard Scam Trio Gets Sentenced
Late last month, I wrote an entry about a trio of scam artists who ripped the MTA off to the tune of $800,000 by selling free rides on the subway and the Long Island Railroad. The trio found a glitch in a Penn Station MetroCard Vending Machine (MVM) & hatched the plan shortly thereafter.
Today’s edition of the New York Daily News reports that the last member of the MetroCard scamming trio has been sentenced to an identical 1 year prison sentence. Oren Yaniv of the New York Daily News has more:
A Long Island woman who helped rip off the MTA in an $800,000 ticket scam got a free bus ride yesterday – to Rikers.
Lisa Foster Jordan, 40, was part of a trio that stumbled on a defective machine in Penn Station that spit out free tickets, which they then sold.
“This is a very serious case,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel. “The MTA is in financial trouble to begin with.”
Click here for the complete report.
My opinion of these scam artists are in the entry referenced above.
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