Five current and former MBTA employees were arrested Thursday for allegedly lying about conducting Red Line track inspections last year, federal prosecutors said.
Surveillance video shows four former track inspectors doing other things, like working on private vehicles or sitting idly while they said in records that they were inspecting track, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said in a news release Thursday. Their supervisor at the Cabot Yard inspection facility allegedly not only knew they weren’t on the job, prosecutors said he had them work on his vehicle, too.
Prosecutors said that these people had been indicted: Brain Pfaffinger, 47, of Marshfield; Ronald Gamble, 62, of Dorchester; Jensen Vatel, 42, of Brockton; Nathalie Mendes, 53, of New Bedford; and Andy Vicente, 36, of Bridgewater…