Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)

Our objective was to assess the company’s management and oversight of the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program.We found that the company is developing its management structure for the FDT program but initially did not have an effective structure or sufficient staff in place. In December 2022, the...

An Amtrak train attendant based in Charlotte, North Carolina, signed a civil settlement agreement on August 13, 2024, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina. The employee agreed to pay a total of $10,800 in settlement, restitution, and penalties to the Railroad...

An Amtrak conductor based in Los Angeles, California, was terminated from employment on August 13, 2024, following an administrative hearing. Our investigation found that the employee violated company policies by failing to report his arrest for driving under the influence.

Navanjun Grewal, a doctor based in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on July 2, 2024, in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, for making a false statement and for obstructing a federal audit related to a health care fraud investigation. Grewal was sentenced to two years’...

Sean Langston, a former Amtrak supervisor based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for his role in a wide-ranging pandemic fraud scheme on July 30, 2024, in Chester County, Pennsylvania State Court. Langston was sentenced to 6 months in prison, 6 months home...

An Amtrak Director based in Chicago, Illinois, was terminated from employment on July 3, 2024, following the issuance of our investigative report. Our investigation found that the employee, along with another former employee, violated company policies by surreptitiously transmitting confidential...

Amtrak notified our office February 16, 2024, of a potential data‐sharing incident. Our investigation found that an employee granted two third‐party email accounts access to an Amtrak OneDrive/SharePoint folder which contained 369 company files related to an Amtrak program. As a result of our...

Endo Health Solutions Inc. (EHSI) was ordered May 2, 2024, to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and an additional $450 million in criminal forfeiture—the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical company—for violations of the federal Food, Drug and...

An Amtrak foreman based in Chicago, Illinois, was terminated from employment on June 25, 2024, following an administrative hearing. Our investigation found that the employee violated company policies by falsely reporting in the company’s Work Management System that required safety inspections had...

Michael Holder, an Amtrak assignment clerk based in Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty on June 5, 2024, in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, to two counts of Wire Fraud related to the fraudulent receipt of benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Our...