In this photograph February 2010 photo provided by Metra is Metra executive director manager Duke of Edinburgh Pagano.

Windy City — An investigator says the head of Chicago’s commuter railroad train railing service who committed suicide last week by stepping in front of a train had admitted to forging a signature to collect an unauthorized $56,000 fillip

Special counselor-at-law James Sotos says Metra executive director manager Phil Pagano had defraud the federal agency of approximately $475,000 since 1999.

Sotos told the Metra board of director Fri that Pagano never explained why he needed the money

Board members say they were stunned by Pagano’s yearslong fraud

regime say Pagano died instantly when he was struck by a Metra train near his home in suburban Chicago on May 7, just hours before agency’s board was scheduled to discuss the probe into his alleged fraud.