Charge-card slap aimed at MTA honcho

A manager at a Brooklyn subway yard in 2019 directed crews to build an electric charger for a worker’s personal Tesla car — and used an MTA credit card to pay for the parts, a top transit union boss alleged Wednesday.

The boss, Joe Nasella, an assistant chief track officer at Linden Train Yard in Canarsie, wanted to give an employee their own charging station, Transport Workers Union international president John Samuelsen said during Wednesday’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority board meeting.

Nasella bought the materials to build the charger on Amazon with an MTA credit card, and then directed staff at the yard to build the charger while on the clock, Samuelsen alleged.

The device caught the attention of the MTA Inspector General, who Samuelsen claims instructed the bosses to remove the charger. But “as soon as the MTA IG investigators left, they put it back up and it remained there until Friday,” Samuelsen said.

Interim NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg said she wasn’t aware the charger was there — and MTA inspector general Carolyn Pokorny declined to comment on an ongoing investigation.

Samuelsen’s public unveiling of the IG investigation comes two weeks after Feinberg told WABCTV that seven subway track workers were suspended after another probe found they were not completing their assigned inspections on time last year.

All seven of those track inspectors worked out of Linden Yard and reported to Nasella, Samuelsen said.

“It’s curious to me that every time there’s an hourly worker involved, you demand restitution,” Samuelsen told Pokorny at Wednesday’s board meeting. “The Tesla charging station didn’t build itself... yet nothing was done about it.”

Nasella declined to comment when reached by phone, and MTA officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.