Instead of chiding MTA employees who were busted abusing their tax-payer funded jobs, a transit union boss on Thursday lashed out at The Post and the agency’s inspector general for reporting on the fraud.

“The media’s open season on transit workers continued today with new attacks in the NY Post and on Fox 5 TV. The latest public abuse came in the form of a regurgitation of a 2018 investigation by the MTA Inspector General,” Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano fumed in a statement.

“Most of the outrage against transit workers is being fueled by the MTA’s new media-hungry Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny, who continues to foment the ridiculous scenario that all 70,000 MTA workers are getting paid for not working. So be it. We’re used to the MTA assaulting its own workforce.”

Pokorny this week released a series of 2018 investigations into agency workers and supervisors detailing “troubling instances of waste, fraud and abuse” — including a Long Island Rail Road foreman repeatedly busted at home while on the clock and a top transit cop caught blowing off work and using his work cruiser to get to funeral homes where he had unsanctioned side gigs as a pallbearer.

The Post reached out to both men, as well as several others reprimanded by the IG. Former foreman Raymond Murphy said only, “I’m retired now and that’s all I have to say,” and ex-MTA Police Department Assistant Chief Thomas Odessa did not return requests for comment.

Utano nevertheless claimed the report was part of a “pattern of smearing transit workers” amid contract negotiations.

When asked whether the union disputes the conclusions of the IG’s probes, a TWU spokesman responded only with memos about two MTA workers who were assaulted while at work.