(The following appeared on the Boston Globe website on May 20, 2011.)
BOSTON — Authorities said yesterday that they had uncovered a massive scheme to print and sell thousands of unauthorized MBTA passes, the largest fare-evasion case in T history and one that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars over the past four years.
Andres M. Townes of Revere is accused of using his job with an MBTA contractor to manufacture “ghost passes’’ that looked and worked like the real thing, selling them on the side and pocketing the cash.
Authorities called it a nearly perfect fraud.
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