{"id":11195,"date":"2014-04-24T04:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T09:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2014-04-24T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:17:48","slug":"nyt-taxi-driver-charged-in-28000-toll-fraud-caught-by-pings-from-lost-e-zpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11195","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Taxi Driver Charged in $28,000 Toll Fraud; caught by pings from lost E-ZPass"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYT: Taxi Driver Charged in $28,000 Toll Fraud<\/a> by J. Daivd Goodman:<\/p>\n

Caught by using a lost E-ZPass that always transmits its signal. He tailgated and piggybacked other drivers through the gates. Then the pings were matched to video. Moral: In an electronic world, nothing goes unrecorded. See Chapter 5 of the Treatise<\/a>.
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Back and forth the driver went. A thousand times over the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. Three thousand trips through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.<\/p>\n

Each time without paying a toll.<\/p>\n

It might sound like the fever dream of a New York City car commuter.<\/p>\n

It was, the authorities said, the reality for one taxi driver who for nearly two years sneaked through toll plazas by \u201cpiggybacking\u201d on the driver in front of him and pocketing payments totaling more than $28,000.<\/p>\n

Queens prosecutors on Thursday charged the driver, Rodolfo Sanchez, 69, with grand larceny, theft of service and criminal possession of stolen property for a scheme that began in August 2012 and ended Wednesday at 3:40 p.m.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYT: Taxi Driver Charged in $28,000 Toll Fraud by J. Daivd Goodman: Caught by using a lost E-ZPass that always transmits its signal. He tailgated and piggybacked other drivers through the gates. Then the pings were matched to video. Moral: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11214,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}