An MTA board member torched Long Island Rail Road leadership Wednesday for not firing dozens of workers caught in a brazen scheme to pad their hours.

Board member James O’Donnell skewered LIRR president Rob Free after learning in media reports that dozens of accused scammers still had jobs after they were outed in a scam that saw phony ID cards used to get paid when employees weren’t working.

Some of the alleged con artists had reportedly been raking in mounds of overtime before they were busted, he said.

“To me, those people will continue to reap the benefits of their behavior,” O’Donnell fumed of the alleged scheme, which was exposed in a scathing report from MTA Inspector General Daniel Court.

“That is unconscionable.”

Court called for the IG to brief the board in person, as he

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