MTA worker avoids jail after pocketing dead mom’s benefits
(New York Post Local News)

An MTA employee who managed to pocket his late mother’s government benefits for almost 20 years dodged jail Friday, when a sympathetic judge sentenced him to just a year of probation. Mark Hodge apologized profusely to Brooklyn federal court Judge Eric Vitaliano, near tears as he explained how “deeply sorry and remorseful” he was. “I...