In December 2020, Thomas Caputo — a longtime Long Island Rail Road track inspector with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority — was charged with one count of federal program fraud after the MTA Inspector General's office reviewed his self-reported hours and found he had become the single highest-paid employee in the entire agency, collecting roughly $461,000 in 2018, more than even the chairman of the MTA. ––– Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.