NYC Transit supervisor Jacqueline Jackson charged with kickbacks and con netting $150G
BY PETE DONOHUE / DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010, 11:26 PM
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Police nvestigators confiscate boxes of documents and computers as they conduct an investigation at the home of NYC Transit supervisor Jacqueline Jackson.
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An NYC Transit supervisor took kickbacks and was the key figure in two scams that stole more than $150,000 from the cash-strapped agency, authorities say.
As head of a law department unit, Jacqueline Jackson steered some pretrial agency work to a former prosecutor in exchange for payoffs, law enforcement sources said.
In another scheme, Jackson approved inflated bills submitted by another business owner - a retired correction officer, officials said.
"Jacqueline Jackson, whose job it was to save taxpayers money by fighting frivolous lawsuits against the NYCTA, cost those taxpayers money, by stealing from the very agency that hired her," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.
Hynes and MTA Inspector General Barry Kluger's office conducted a joint investigation culminating today with the announcement of indictments against Jackson and two others.
The trio is expected to make initial court appearances on second-degree grand larceny and other charges. If convicted, each faces up to 15 years in prison.
An investigation by Kluger's office and Hynes' rackets division uncovered signs Jackson was living an unexpectedly lavish lifestyle for an $83,000-a-year supervisor of a unit with 10 underlings.
Jackson had flat-screen TVs throughout her Brooklyn house, including the bathroom, along with a handful of fur coats in the closet, sources said. She also owned a second house in Virginia and drove a Mercedes Benz S430 luxury sedan, sources said.
Law enforcement sources identified the former prosecutor as John Headley, an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn from 1991 to 1995.
Headley's company, Advance IME Co., obtained medical records and expert witnesses for NYC Transit lawyers , authorities said. The agency is regularly sued by bus and subway riders claiming they suffered injuries in slip-and-fall and traffic accidents.
Headley formed the company under a false name, James Douglas, because he also worked as an outside counsel under his real name for the agency, authorities said.
One indictment charges Headley with giving advice to Jackson and Joyce Ilarraza, a former correction officer who owned AJI Records Retrieval, which tracked down medical records in court cases.
Ilarraza was a correction officer for 17 years before retiring.
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