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  • nikolaos frangos, 38, george capuzello , 42, both of campbell, ohio, and mikhail zubialevich, a/k/a "russian mike," 41, of princeton, new jersey were charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a conspiracy related to the disturbance of protected peregrine falcons, announced united states attorney zane david memeger.
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  • a man who claimed to be picking up a passenger at amtrak’s providence rhode island train station requested reimbursement of $6,380 in medical bills that he stated he incurred as a result of a fall at the station. a video surveillance camera clearly showed the man staging the accident by pouring water on the floor and then returning to “slip” on the wet floor.
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  • our objective was to analyze personal injury claims data to identify trends and patterns that could be useful in managing the claims process. we used the audit command language (acl), a specialized data analysis software tool, to analyze 100 percent of the claims from fy 2010 through fy 2013 and extended one analysis to fy 2007 to fy 2009. during this process, we met with company officials and…
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  • our work focused on the engineering and mechanical departments, which spent more than 85 percent of capital project funds for fy 2012. our audit objective was to determine the adequacy of the policies, procedures, and practices used by these two departments to manage capital projects.
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  • our reporting objective is to assess the progress toward achieving the ada program goals and to address the management control issues raised in our previous report. during fy 2012 and fy 2013, the primary program goal was to make locations ada-compliant for which amtrak has sole responsibility for the station, platform, and parking structure. for fy 2014, the ada management team approved a new…
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  • our investigation disclosed that an assistant conductor failed to remit cash and credit card payment for 414 tickets valued at $24,908. the employee resigned when presented with notice of a formal administrative hearing.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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