Our audit objectives were (1) to assess opportunities for the Mechanical department to reduce costs by right-sizing its component workforce, and (2) to identify potential cost-savings associated with opening its component rebuild workload to competition.

Our work indicated that two of three maintenance facilities have excess component rebuild employees and that the company has not fully considered the extent to which it could achieve additional savings by competitively bidding some of its in-house component rebuild workload.

PHILADELPHIA – A former Amtrak employee was charged with one count of federal program bribery in U.S. District Court last week.

According to court documents, the employee allegedly awarded several contracts worth more than $7.6 million to a small manufacturing firm in exchange for approximately $20,000 in bribes, trips, and other items of value. If convicted, the former employee could face a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, a $100 special assessment, and three years of supervised release.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – An owner of several shell companies purported to be laboratory marketing companies and two employees pleaded guilty to their roles in a health care fraud scheme in Federal Court recently.