Port Authority cops on Wednesday busted 16 taxi dispatchers from Kennedy and LaGuardia airports who took bribes from hacks who wanted to jump the line of cabs waiting for fares, sources said.
The unidentified dispatchers were arrested after they were told to report to JFK for what they thought was a training session.
They were charged with receiving bribes and official misconduct and were expected to be arraigned later Wednesday in Queens Criminal Court, the sources said.
"They were summoned for training, and when they turned down a corridor they were placed under arrest," the source said of the surprised workers, who are employed by a Port Authority contractor called Gateway.
The crooked dispatchers took $10 bribes from hacks who did not want to wait in "taxi hold lots" at the two airports, the source said.
In exchange for the ten spot, they would let the drivers who paid up jump the line to get more paying fares, he said.
The dispatchers could make up to $1,000 a day in the scam, the source added.
"They are supposed to send the taxi drivers to a taxi hold lot where they wait two to three hours and they're dispatched on demand," the source added.
Also, the crooked hacks – scores of whom participated in the shady deal – would be given "shorty tickets" meant for drivers taking fares to Brooklyn and Queens even when they were actually driving into Manhattan.
That would allow them to cut the line once again once they returned.
The PA's Inspector General's Office got tipped off about the scam by honest cabbies angry over the preferential treatment.
The honest hacks participated in the investigation, which also included electronic surveillance of the accused crooks.
The scam prompted the PA to switch to a new, computer dispatch system already in use at Newark Liberty airport, the source said
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