Prison Is No Bar to Disability Checks

While crime didn’t pay, the Transit Authority did.

A former New York subway employee, in prison for murder since 1982, received worker’s compensation payments totaling $91,477 over nearly two decades before investigators discovered he wasn’t entitled to them.

In 1982, Frank Solimine, 51, began serving a prison term for fatally shooting a man but continued receiving $95 weekly checks for a back injury he suffered in 1976 while working for the agency. It’s not clear what happened to the money; Solimine’s bank account has less than $100.