The Toronto Auditor General has revealed that a stunning 600 TTC employees may have participated in an orthotics racket run by a North York businessman. The scheme involved a diagnoses that required certain services which were non-existent which we then charged to a TTC insurance program. The racket was only discovered last year by a tip from an unknown source. So far, as reported here earlier, 12 TTC employees have been fired. The racket may have cost the City more than $5 million. TTC spokesman Brad Ross told CBC News that nine non-union employees and three unionized workers have been let go. Ross added the that even though they’re being investigated, not all of the 600 employees did anything wrong. In her annual report on fraud at the City of Toronto that was released on Friday, Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler revealed that the TTC is continuing to investigate 600 other TTC employees who submitted claims to the company in question TTC employees get the boot in orthotics scandal
