Investigative Reports

Andre Wilburn, a resident of New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, on November 14, 2024, to two years of imprisonment, five years of probation, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $468,037 for his participation in an Amtrak ticket fraud scheme. Wilburn and his co-conspirators used stolen credit card information to make unauthorized purchases of Amtrak tickets and then canceled or exchanged those tickets for eVouchers. Subsequently, they sold the fraudulently obtained eVouchers on the internet. Wilburn pleaded guilty on October 24, 2019, to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft for his involvement in the eVoucher scheme.

In addition, Wilburn was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment and five years of probation on November 14, 2024, for charges of Coercion and Enticement of a minor. Amtrak OIG agents discovered child pornography on Wilburn’s computer during the investigation, including images that showed Wilburn conducting sexual acts on a child. Wilburn pleaded guilty to one count of the charge on August 15, 2022.

We concluded that the officers’ pursuit was consistent with USPP policies and that, in all but one instance, the officers’ actions during the pursuit did not violate USPP policies.

Maurice Driver, a former Amtrak lead service attendant based in Washington, D.C., was sentenced in U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, on November 6, 2024, for making false statements. He was sentenced to time served and a criminal fine of $200.
 

According to court documents, Driver was working as a Lead Service Attendant in the café car on an Amtrak train, which departed from Washington, D.C., in the afternoon of January 3, 2024, and ended in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 4, 2024.
While working on that train, Driver met a passenger, spoke, and texted with the passenger, and allowed the passenger to use a vacant sleeper car on the train. On January 4, 2024, in Chicago, that passenger reported to Amtrak Police that Driver sexually assaulted her in a sleeper car on the train. Amtrak OIG then initiated an investigation of the sexual assault allegations. During an interview with an Amtrak OIG Special Agent, Driver made multiple false and misleading statements about his communications and contacts with the passenger, denying that he gave the passenger his personal phone number, texted with the passenger, and that he showed the passenger to a sleeper car. On August 8, 2024, Driver pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent, and he was terminated from the company on October 31, 2024. He is not eligible for rehire.

The AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General (AmeriCorps OIG) conducted an investigation that found evidence that the Axiom Education and Training Center (AETC) in Machias, ME, included false information in its AmeriCorps grant application to Serve Maine, and that AETC mismanaged its AmeriCorps Digital Inclusion Initiative program.

An Amtrak customer service representative based in Oakland, California, resigned from her position on October 10, 2024, prior to her administrative hearing. Our investigation found that the former employee violated company policies by allowing individuals who were not entitled to pass travel privileges to travel on her pass. During her interview, the former employee admitted to her actions.