MTA bus pass scam audited

The case of an MTA bus driver who embezzled $10,000 worth of day passes and his friend who sold them on the street has prompted the agency to conduct an audit of its drivers and address problems of accountability. Sue Doyle in the Daily News.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said they don't know how much public money has been lost beyond this case, but they said about three drivers a year skim money from books of $5 day passes they sell on the job, allowing passengers to ride buses and rail all day with one ticket.

"We don't have a handle of the day passes unaccounted for," said Jack Eckles, Metro's deputy executive officer for systems, safety and security. "We're trying to identify our accountability problems first. We do recognize it's a problem."