An MTA Bus manager is facing disciplinary charges for steering nearing $2 million worth of bus supplies contracts to businesses owned by his family, The New York Post reported this weekend. Dean Carbonaro, a bus manager who The Post says chews on cigars and watches “Jerry Springer” while at work at a Bronx bus depot, has approved parts contracts for well above market value so that his family could benefit, an investigation revealed. “Obviously, this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated. Employees can’t seek to benefit family or friends from any of their work activities,” Barry Kluger, inspector general, said.
According to those who work at Carbonaro’s Zarega Maintenance Facility, the boss would instruct his workers to replace bus panels even if the vehicles were in working order. “Shop foremen would say they didn’t need the panels, but Carbonaro told them to put them on. They couldn’t believe it,” one mechanic said to The Post. For its part, the MTA simply said Carbonaro has been “served with disciplinary charges.” I wonder what he would have to do to lose his job.
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“I wonder what he would have to do to lose his job.”
Have bad time and attendance or commit a heinous crime, murder, etc.
Interpret that as: “the MTA doesn’t want to face the wrath of terminating an employee, so let the courts decide his guilt or innocence.” Hopefully, being dismissed due to arrest/conviction results in less of a pension payout than being dismissed due to misconduct.
Sexual misconduct or drinking on the job would also do it.
How this doesn’t warrant termination I’ll never know. This is why people think that all MTA employees are corrupt and bilking the system, when they do catch an employee squandering tax dollars he is not even fired.