The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (OI), conducted an investigation concerning prohibited P-Card use for a two-night hotel stay at the Omni Berkshire Hotel in New York, New York. The hotel stay was on April 12 and 13, 2006, and totaled $609.78. The P-Card payment request was made by [REDACTED] according to a note on the request.
On May 20, 2008, the Office of the Inspector General, Office of Investigations ("IG"), received information from [REDACTED] that he had received invoices totalling $9659.30 from an Alltech contractor, [REDACTED], seeing re-imbursement from Amtrak.
The Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigation ("OI"), received a call from the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General, concering the inappropriate use of GSA gasoline credit cards which were assigned to Amtrak's [REDACTED] Yard [REDACTED]
This investigation began in approximately May of 2001, when [REDACTED], an Amtrak employee commented to [REDACTED] of the Inspector General's Audit Division that Amtrak employees were making numerous journal entries to the books to "hang up" expenses on the balance sheet or to move revenue implying that they were "cooking the books," creating the impression that Amtrak was meeting its budget targets.
"Amtrak Management was aware of a fatally flawed contract provision which required the vender to complete and Environmental Impact Study ("EIS") and Environmental Impact Report ("EIR") within a requisite 270 days (nine months). This restriction was, by admission of [REDACTED], an impossible task."
The Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI"), received information alleging that [REDACTED] had been stealing scrap material from Amtrak's [REDACTED] Yard in [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] allegedly bragged about having an agreenent with a representative from another company, possibly [REDACTED] involving the scrap material.
The Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI") received information alleging that while employed as a consultant for the City of [REDACTED] former Amtrak Engineering Employee [REDACTED] provided numerous Amtrak documents and information to a station designer hired by [REDACTED]. These documents included: Internal Engineering practices, template designs from the Standards Book, various photographs of Amtrak stations, Amtrak Procurement Requisitions for other station projects, etc. Many of these documents reflected the Amtrak logo.
On November 12, 2008, RO received management's timely response to OI's referral regarding this investigation. According to Amtrak's [REDACTED] the subject of this investigation [REDACTED] was suspended without pay for a period of fifteen (15) days, and issued a letter of instruction regarding his hours of work.
While assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigations, OIG-OI determined that an Amtrak partner travel agency committed fraud by receiving refunds for full-fare tickets that were purchased using false discount vouchers.
On August 1, 2008, Office of the Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI"), Agents received information from an anonymous source that [REDACTED] had been allowing [REDACTED] to use his sick time for an unauthorized purpose.