Arrest Transit Supt. For Hiding Income To Get Rent Subsidy

A New York City Transit Superintendent faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on Federal charges of hiding his authority income in order to collect nearly $50,000 in Section 8 housing subsidies.

The Department of Investigation announced Nov. 3 that Superintendent of Operations Herman Angel had received between 2004 and 2006 $49,989 in subsidies for a Manhattan apartment, while reporting to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development that he was self-employed, earning $49,000 a year, and that his wife was unemployed.

In actuality, the DOI alleged, Mr. Herman earned $82,397 in 2004 while working for NYC Transit.

DOI Commissioner Rose Gil Hearn said in a statement, "Anyone thinking about falsifying income to steal valuable housing funds should instead heed the warning of this arrest."