Tuition Assistance Wrongfully Obtained

The Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), Office of Investigations (“OI”) received information that an Amtrak station clerk received tuition assistance from Amtrak to attend college while on a Medical Leave of Absence. The station clerk graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in Engineering and gained employment with a defense contractor in Phoenix all while on leave medical leave from Amtrak.