Four FDNY EMTs Arrested for Fraud

Four city emergency medical workers have been nabbed for filing phony doctors' notes allowing them to miss work, officials said yesterday.

The probe started last summer, when a supervisor with the Fire Department's Emergency Medical Service noticed a questionable excuse form and alerted the Department of Investigation.

That sparked a citywide audit of medical leaves taken by workers with EMS, which led to the four arrests, the Department of Investigation said.

Charles Motto, a Bronx resident and EMT, allegedly gave his bosses three forms excusing him for seven days of work, with signatures and medical license numbers, even though those doctors never treated him.

He also allegedly gave a co-worker a dummied-up version of a medical-excuse form. Three others -- Luis Ortiz, a former paramedic; Rosa Rivera, an EMT; and Winsley Julien, a paramedic -- were snared in similar scams, officials said.

Collectively, the four cheated the city out of salary benefits worth more than $4,000, officials said.