He really cleaned up!

A Bronx subway cleaner who was arrested last week while
collecting his paycheck was shocked to discover heAd actually
been fired years earlier, The Post has learned.

Ronald Berry, 47, claims heAs been on sick leave since 2015 for
high blood pressure and asthma, and has traveled to a city
Transit office on Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard
every two weeks to sign in and pick up his dough without a
problem.

He collected roughly $250,000 before someone at the MTA realized
there was a problem and sounded the alarm, sources told The Post.

When Berry showed up on Thursday to flash his identification
badge and grab his pay as usual, he was nabbed for trespassing,
authorities said.

oI never got a call that I was terminated,o a stunned Berry told
The Post outside his Bronx home Saturday. oIAve been collecting
checks for four fuking years.o

When a Post reporter told Berry he was dismissed way back in
2013, he countered, oSo how am I still collecting checks? ItAs a
fault on the MTA side.o

oIf IAm terminated, how am I still collecting checks?o Berry
said he asked a boss after his arrest.

oThatAs not my problem, thatAs payrollAs problem,o the boss
allegedly told him.

ItAs unclear how Berry ended up back on the payroll in 2015.

A confused Berry claims the agency certainly knows where to find
him u theyAve been sending him letters telling him to go to
training, including one just last month.

oIf IAm terminated why am I getting letters from them?o he said.
oThe last one I got was at the end of last month and I believe
it was for asbestos training or track training.o

Berry fumed: oNow if they wouldAve sent me a termination letter,
f-?-k going to pick a check upaIAm terminated already, let me
file for unemployment.o

Transit sources noted the checks Berry collected noted the
number of hours worked, included a night differential and didnAt
mention disability.

BerryAs wheely good deal included a regular trip on the No. 6
gravy train from Pelham Bay.

MTA sources said the agency now uses biometric fingerprint
technology for oclocking in and clocking out,o which they
suggested would have put the brakes on BerryAs free ride sooner.

The NYPD Saturday confirmed Berry was arrested Thursday and
charged with criminal trespassing after obeing observed inside
an employee-only NYC transit facility.o

The MTA is investigating after a Transit manager raised internal
questions, a spokesman said.

oThe investigation will follow the facts, and anyone who
inappropriately took public money will be held accountable to
the full extent of the law,o spokesman Tim Minton said.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/05/bronx-man-fired-from-mta-continued- to-collect-250k-in-paychecks/

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