BOSTON (SHNS) – She’s waiting for the results of an investigation, but Gov. Maura Healey is already predicting that “people will lose their jobs” after a Boston 25 News report on suspected overtime fraud at the transportation department.
Based on a 231-day undercover probe, 25 Investigates reported last week that it uncovered a “systemic pattern of questionable overtime billing among the top-earning maintenance workers at a MassDOT District Six facility in Charlestown.”
“Anytime somebody is ripping off the public, ripping off taxpayers, I’m outraged,” Healey told reporters Thursday afternoon at the State House. “And you know, I hope whatever the investigation yields, know that they’re going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”…