oi found that an amtrak employee used his own and his dependents’ rail travel privilege cards to obtain amtrak pass rider tickets which he then gave to ineligible persons for travel. this resulted in a loss of revenue to amtrak of approximately $10,000.
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office of investigations reviewed the actions of two managers in the environmental department related to the acquisition of environmental permits. the investigation focused on the deliberate failure of these managers to obtain required state and federal permits before proceeding with a large demolition project at the penn coach yard in philadelphia, and their subsequent attempts at a cover up of…
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an amtrak trackman, who was previously employees by the u.s. department of state, was under investigation by the department bureau of diplomatic security for stealing personal identification information from a passport database and providing the information to a credit card fraud ring.
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the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 (arra) authorized the federal railroad administration (fra) to provide amtrak a grant of $1.3 billion. amtrak was required to use the grant for capital projects to repair, rehabilitate, or upgrade railroad assets or infrastructure, and for security projects, including life safety improvements. amtrak’s procurement and materials management (…
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in august 2012 the inspector general testified before the committee on transportation and infrastructure, house of representatives, about plans for future work in the food and beverage area. this letter is to advise you that the oig is initiating an audit to identify and review best practices used by public- and private-sector entities that provide food and beverage services to passengers, such…
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our objective was to assess the inherent risks associated with a number of key engineering projects and evaluate the risk mitigation tactics that were to be used in the management of high-risk items.
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our objective was to determine whether the finance department was paying duplicate invoices and to assess the effectiveness of its internal controls to detect duplicate invoices and avoid unnecessary payments.
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this report provides the results of our evaluation of amtrak’s efforts to commission its new fleet of acs‐64 electric locomotives. our objective for this report is to discuss the extent to which amtrak is prepared, as of july 1, 2013, to effectively and efficiently operate and maintain the new locomotives in revenue service. we performed our work from may through july 2013 in washington d.c.,…
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our objective was to test employee compliance with existing pcard controls and to identify control weaknesses.
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