Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)

Ryan Taylor Minter, of Calumet City, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court, Central District of Illinois, on October 6, 2020, to 18 months in prison, one-year probation and was ordered to pay restitution of $15,938 for wire fraud charges. Our investigation found that Minter...

Irena Shut, a medical marketer based in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced in United States District Court, Central District of California, on October 5, 2020, to two years’ probation for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Our investigation found that Shut was paid commissions for...

The objective for this report was to assess the extent to which the company has taken steps to determine employees’ current perspectives on safety. We issued this report to provide our findings on a potential issue the company could address in the near term.We found that the company has not...

Babar Iqbal, a California-based doctor and owner of Riverside Regional Surgery Center, was sentenced in the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, on August 31, 2020, to 27 months in prison and was ordered to pay restitution of $2,799,550 for health care insurance fraud. Iqbal targeted...

A Boilermaker/Welder, based in Beech Grove, Indiana, violated Amtrak policies by engaging in outside employment to work for his own companies while on sick leave. We also confirmed that he was conducting and engaging in work for his own companies on days that he requested leave for “union business.”...

An Amtrak electrician with the Mechanical department was suspended from employment on June 13, 2018 for violating company policy. The employee was initially terminated; however, a Public Law Board reduced the penalty of termination to a suspension and reinstated the employee without backpay.

A Mechanical Inspector based in Beech Grove, Indiana, violated Amtrak policies by posting images and material characterized as disturbing, offensive, and inappropriate on a publicly available social media site. The former employee admitted to posting images which promoted Nazi ideologies on a social...

The objective for this report was to assess the effectiveness of the company’s efforts to plan and coordinate track outages. Ineffective track outage planning and coordination can negatively affect the company’s ability to achieve its state-of-good repair goal, which can impact revenue, customer...

Amtrak (the company) contracted with the independent public accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP to audit its consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal year then ended, September 30, 2019, and to provide a report on internal control over financial reporting and compliance with...

Joseph Kieffer, a marketer from Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty on July 20, 2020, in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, to conspiracy to pay illegal renumerations related to a health care fraud scheme. Kieffer paid kickbacks to patients and to marketers for patient...