While we are talking about illegal taxi practices, the first in what the Post calls a "conga-line of allegedly chiseling cabbies" has pleaded guilty to defrauding fares by charging them a suburban rate while in the city. Hassan Chowdhury is expected to get 100 days of community service and five years of probation when he is sentenced in March (curiously, he isn't going to be going to prison, as the prosecution wanted). He stole nearly $6,000 over 3,126 trips using the "Rate 4" scam. One down, 58 bad cabbies to go...