Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) OIG

John Flores, a former Amtrak reservation sales agent based in Riverside, California, was sentenced on April 25, 2022, in U.S. District Court, for the Central District of California, to 3 years of probation and $25,137 in restitution to the company. He pleaded guilty to Theft from Programs Receiving...

Our objective for this report was to assess the extent to which the company planned effectively for the Unified Operations Center (UOC) program, including developing a business case that demonstrated the expected financial and operational benefits compared to the estimated costs.The company began...

Brian Kerr, former Building and Bridges Assistant Supervisor, pleaded guilty in New York County Supreme Court on March 23, 2022, to two misdemeanor counts to Falsify Business Records: Make False Entry. He was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay restitution to the company in the...

This report offers our perspective relative to issues the company could face as it prepares to receive funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which could begin later in fiscal year 2022. While the OIG recognizes the company has made significant progress in the past decade...

An Information Technology Manager based in Washington, D.C., was terminated from the company on March 30, 2022. We found that the manager violated company policies by discussing bidding strategies with a vendor and providing exclusive access to company facilities prior to the vendor submitting its...

Chanh Van Le, aka Kevin Le, a resident of Chino, California, was sentenced on November 22, 2021, in United States District Court, Central District of California, to eight months in prison, three years’ probation, and was ordered to pay $1,150,000 in joint restitution. Kevin Le previously pleaded...

A General Foreman based in Washington, D.C., was terminated from the company on March 12, 2022. Our investigation found that from July 14, 2021, to January 12, 2022, the former employee violated company policies by falsely claiming and accepting payment for hours he did not work while attending an...

A Chicago man pleaded guilty and was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, to possession of cannabis on January 24, 2022. Andre Jordan was previously arrested on February 8, 2021, after agents found him to be in possession of approximately 2.2 pounds of cannabis after he deboarded...