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  • theft of time
    a passenger engineer trainee input hours that he did not work into amtrak’s paperless time ticket computer system. the engineer trainee who was paid $3,748 for 20 days he did not work, was indicted on one count of theft, one count of forgery, and one count of wire fraud in the state of illinois, cook county.
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  • amtrak: top management and performance challenges
    this is our first report assessing the top management and performance challenges facing amtrak (the company). many other inspectors general are legislatively required to produce similar reports focusing on high-risk/impact activities and performance issues that affect programs, operations, and achievement of strategic goals. those reports have shown that periodically identifying and reporting the…
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  • secretary provides confidential pnr information for payment
    a secretary to a train and engine crew regularly provided confidential passenger name reservation (pnr) information to us drug enforcement administration (dea) agents without seeking approval from amtrak management or the amtrak police department (apd).
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  • employee leaves jobsite to work out
    we received an anonymous report that an employee consistently left the jobsite without authorization during the workday to work out at a local health club facility. we compared a summary of the employee’s attendance at the health club to amtrak payroll as well as sign-in/sign-out logs and determined that the employee was absent during the workday on several occasions during a three month period.
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  • safety officer fails to disclose criminal convictions
    we received an anonymous report that a safety officer had an extensive criminal history with numerous felony convictions that were not disclosed to amtrak on his application.
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  • employee pads expense reports with false meal checks
    an employee, who regularly traveled the trains, submitted 211 meal checks totaling $3316 for expenses he did not incur. the employee was arrested in the district of columbia, pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor fraud, and was sentenced to three years unsupervised probation and to make restitution to amtrak in the amount of $3316.
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  • management advisory report governance: employee time charges trend data for calendar year 2013
    our objective was to develop information on the extent to which agreement employees reported working 16 or more hours of straight time in a day—and the possible reasons why. we did not assess the validity of the reported time charges or verify the possible reasons cited were the actual basis for the time charges we identified. we used a data analysis software tool, audit command language (acl),…
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  • contractor falsifies servicing of fire extinguishers
    we investigated a complaint that a contractor, responsible for servicing fire extinguishers on amtrak’s properties in los angeles, was not providing the contracted services.
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  • two employees forge medical forms
    we conducted two separate investigations on employees who reportedly forged “treating physician medical status report statement of disability” forms. one employee, a customer service representative, submitted the form to allow the employee to return from a medical leave of absence.
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  • asset management: opportunities exist to enhance decision-making process for utilization of long-distance equipment
    amtrak’s network of 15 long-distance trains is expected to lose almost $615 million in fiscal year 2014. in october 2013, the company established a long-distance business line to improve the financial performance of these trains and to help support the company’s strategic goal of being profitable on an operating basis, with revenues exceeding operating costs. optimizing the utilization of…
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