Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) OIG

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...

An Amtrak Sheetmetal Technician in Los Angeles, California, was terminated from employment on March 15, 2019, following an administrative hearing for violating company policy. Our investigation found that the employee intentionally sabotaged a wheel truing machine in the Los Angeles yard in order to...

An Amtrak Foreman/Trackman in Los Angeles, California, was terminated from employment on February 25, 2019, following the employee’s administrative hearing for violating company policies. Our investigation found that the Foreman/Trackman stole paper products from the locker room supply cabinet and...

An Amtrak Superintendent in Los Angeles, California, was terminated from employment on February 9, 2019, following the issuance of our investigative report that determined the Superintendent violated company policy. Our investigation found that the Superintendent awarded more than $22,000 in...

This report assesses the effectiveness of company efforts to detect drug and alcohol issues among employees in safety-sensitive positions. We identified weaknesses in the company’s controls for detecting drug- and alcohol-related issues among its employees in safety-sensitive positions. We found...

An Amtrak employee in Los Angeles, California, resigned from employment on December 4, 2018, following our investigation which revealed the employee stole money from the Employee Committee Fund. During an interview, the employee admitted to stealing over $20,000 from the fund and using the money to...