Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of Amtrak’s (the company) train control systems. Our audit objective was to assess the company’s efforts to identify and address vulnerabilities in these systems and to ensure resiliency.The company uses train control systems to dispatch and...

An Amtrak Trainer was terminated from employment on May 7, 2019, and an Amtrak Foreman was terminated on May 17, 2019, after our investigation determined both employees violated company policy. We found that the Chicago-based employees falsified company training records for required safety-related...

John Mckoy pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on June 14, 2019, to multiple health care fraud charges related to involvement in a scheme to defraud a health care benefit plan, which provided coverage to Amtrak employees and their dependents. McKoy was the owner...

An Amtrak Customer Service Representative in Salinas, California, was terminated from employment on April 5, 2019, following an administrative hearing for violating company policies. Our investigation found that the Customer Service Representative manually adjusted ticket prices for the benefit and...

An Amtrak Service/Train Attendant in Chicago, Illinois, was terminated from employment on May 23, 2019, following an administrative hearing for violating company policy. Our investigation found that the employee used a Social Security number that did not belong to her and lied to Human Resources...

I am pleased to submit our Semiannual Report to the United States Congress. This report—our office’s 59th—highlights our audits and investigations for the six months ending March 31, 2019, pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. During this period, our audit work continued to...

Amtrak (the company) contracted with the independent certified public accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP to audit its consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2018, and for the year then ended, and to provide a report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and...

This report assesses the effectiveness of the company’s real property management processes.We identified several opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of the company’s real property management processes. Specifically, the company could have avoided at least $23.2 million in unnecessary costs...

Two executives at a textile company, based in Milford, Delaware, pleaded guilty to federal program bribery charges in U.S. District Court in February.Donald Crothers, the company’s vice president for marketing and contract administration, and John Gonzales, the company’s executive vice president and...

Two Amtrak employees, Narcisse Tsaba, Electrician, and Jean-Jacques Lontchi, Locomotive Inspector, resigned on February 4 and February 12, 2019, respectively. The two employees previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fraud charges in the District of Columbia Superior Court for participating in a...