THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE is now saying an MBTA employee stole $450,000 from bus fare collection boxes, more than five times as much as the $80,000 alleged in June.
Stephen Fagerberg, a 55-year-old Dedham resident, was arrested in June as a result of an undercover operation that tracked marked bills placed in fare boxes on MBTA buses to Fagerberg’s personal bank account. The estimate of how much he stole in June was $80,000.
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Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine’s website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.
Fagerberg was in charge of fixing and repairing fare collection boxes. He was indicted Thursday on two counts of larceny over $1,200 in a continuous scheme. He is scheduled to be arraigned on October 11 in Suffolk Superior Court.
Fagerberg is currently suspended without pay from his job at the MBTA. State payroll records indicate he made $90,206 in 2016 and $36,248 in 2017.
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