The MTA needs a new acronym – ATM. That is how the Maryland Transit Administration operates for who those who steal from it.

General Assembly auditors found a $475,000 discrepancy between recorded collections and bank deposits made over four months last year. We wonder what would have happened if auditors looked at the entire year – or past five years. At that rate, the agency would have been doling out $1.425 million each year fraudulently.