NJ Transit will be seeking to recoup more than $10,000 from two officers in the locomotive engineers’ union, according to a letter by a NJ Transit official to two union leaders and obtained first by NorthJersey.com.

The news comes one day after NorthJersey.com published an exclusive story about how NJ Transit conducted a review of payroll records to determine whether leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen were improperly paid when they were on “company time” and conducting “union business.”

The Sept. 29 letters — by Patrick McGreal, NJ Transit’s deputy general manager for labor relations and administration — were written to Thomas Haas Jr., general chairman of the union, and Donald Melhorn, the union’s vice chair.

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