Federal Reports

Two Amtrak employees, Kevin Frink, 53, of Willingboro, New Jersey, and Dion Jacob, 51, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud on May 22, 2025, and June 11, 2025, respectively, in U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. According to court documents, Frink and Jacob were given cash kickbacks for allowing health care providers to fraudulently bill Amtrak’s health care plan for services that were never provided and that were not medically necessary. The former employees were indicted on June 20, 2024, along with eight other employees.

OIG performed an inspection of the Office of the Chief Economist to determine the likely level of sophistication an attacker would need to compromise selected U.S. Department of Agriculture systems or data.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System in Missouri. This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
•    Culture
•    Environment of care
•    Patient safety
•    Primary care
•    Veteran-centered safety net
The OIG issued five recommendations for improvement in two domains:
1.    Environment of care
•    Supply storage locations and expired supplies
•    Video laryngoscope supplies
•    Safe and clean patient care areas
•    Preventive maintenance for biomedical equipment
2.    Patient safety
•    Service-level workflows and processes to monitor patient test result communications