oi found that a former amtrak executive, hired as an independent contractor, requested and received “unclaimed” hotel reward points for amtrak conferences and training events. this conduct gave the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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we reported to amtrak management the results of our investigation into allegations of a possible conflict of interest by a company vice-president related to the award and administration of contracts to provide training to amtrak executives. we determined that the vice-president’s father had a relationship to the company that provided the training.
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the office of inspector general is initiating an evaluation of the company’s business case for procuring next-generation high-speed rail trainsets. specifically, we will determine the extent to which amtrak is incorporating the sound business practices that we previously reported on in oig reports e-2013-014 and e-2013-020 in developing its business case for high-speed rail equipment. to…
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in the largest ever health care fraud enforc action by feder prosecutor 120 nbsp defend nationwid includ an amtrak employe and health care provid were charg for alleg particip in health care fraud scheme that cumul alleg approxim 1 3 nbsp billion in fals bill amtrak employe gladi perez licens acupuncturist xiao kimi gudmundsen and suzana cortez an employe who work for gudmundsen were arrest in…
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we initi an investig into an alleg that an amtrak employe violat compani polici by accept a 1 000 donat from one of the compani s vendor to help with person medic expens our investig confirm that the employe who was respons for select vendor that servic and maintain amtrak polic depart vehicl accept the donat while his accept of the donat from a compani vendor is in violat of amtrak polici mitig…
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on juli 13 2017 the philadelphia district attorney s offic and amtrak s offic of inspector general oig announc the resolut of charg against shohana culberson for defraud amtrak of more than 26 000 culberson was charg with theft of servic and crimin conspiraci and was subsequ termin from amtrak culberson s crimin activ was uncov when an amtrak conductor identifi two passeng who could not produc…
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on januari 23 2017 an amtrak ticket agent was arrest on state charg relat to defraud amtrak of good and servic obtain through amtrak s employe rail pass program our investig found that the employe use her amtrak employe rail pass to reserv ticket in her depend name and suppli them to individu who were not elig for travel benefit we also found that the employe appli for rail pass benefit reserv…
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two derail this spring at new york penn station penn station led to signific delay for amtrak the compani passeng and rail commut across the new york citi region rais question about the age infrastructur at the nation s busiest train station in respons the compani launch the new york penn station infrastructur renew program renew program which compani document describ as compress sever year of…
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we initi an investig into alleg that an amtrak the compani divis engin violat compani polici on various issu includ fail to take action after learn about the falsif of daili job brief form for a feder railroad administr audit fail to take appropri action dure the conceal of a major oper rule violat know withhold inform from the amtrak law depart while they were defend a feder railroad safeti act…
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we initi an investig involv an amtrak the compani supervisor after our separ audit of employe payrol and overtim hour reveal that the supervisor had unusu high claim of overtim hour we found that the supervisor fraudul claim 41 regular hour and 685 75 overtim hour result in a loss of more than 71 000 for the compani the supervisor was arrest in juli 2016 and charg with theft of govern properti on…
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