On February 18, 2007, Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI"), Agents received information from [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], regarding Operation Red Block ("ORB") missing funds. The e-mail indicated that during their audit, [REDACTED] had written 35 ORB checks to herself totalling $9,114.36 and that an additional 34 checks were also issued to [REDACTED].
During Lead Service Attendant ("LSA") packet reviews by the Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI"), it was determined that packets belonging to [REDACTED], former LSA, had contained under reported sales amounts. The packets had been processed by the Train Provision Management System ("TPMS") Clerks who had previously been implicated in activities designed to retain Amtrak funds for personal gain.
Senior Special Agent [REDACTED] U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (OI), requested OI's assistance in his case involving [REDACTED].
On December 22, 2009, the OIG received a complaint that [REDACTED] was circumventing Amtrak policies and procedures using AT "training funds" to pay for his PhD. [REDACTED] was said to have submitted expense reports for his "PhD classes" through e-trax.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (OI) received an anonymous allegation from the OIG website hotline. The anonymous source alleged that [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], Electric Train (E.T.) Management, in the Philadelphia office are creating jobs and appointing relatives to these jobs.
An initial complaint was received from Systems Operations, CNOC, regarding sensitive Amtrak information on train movement being posted on railfan websites. The investigation revealed that an individual by the name of [REDACTED] operates a Yahoo group web site All Aboard (AA).
Tho Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI") received information alleging that Private Label Travel ("PLT"), a company that operated a business venture for Amtrak Marketing titled "Amtrak Vacations" was involved in questionable transactions that adversely impacted Amtrak. Allegedly, PLT violated the contractual "window of time" between ticket issue and delivery of the ticket to the ultimate passenger.
[REDACTED] for Marriott Hotels, reports that one of their employees, [REDACTED] compromised a Marriott guest's credit card number and used same to obtain an Amtrak ticket from Newark, NJ to Charlotte, NC on August 18, 2009.
October 27, 2009, the Office of the Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI") Issued a Management Report to William Crosbie, Chief Operating Officer which substantiated several allegations made against [REDACTED]. The basis for those allegations was that [REDACTED] was abusing his position claiming "business travel" to commute from his residence in [REDACTED] to [REDACTED].
The Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), Office of Investigations ("OI"), received information alleging that Amtrak had agreed to issue a change order for the work at the [REDACTED] Maintenance Facility ("[REDACTED]") which the claimant believed should have been covered under a warranty clause from contract S 064 90678 with RainPlan Internation, Inc. ("RailPlan").