Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) OIG

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, 2017, and for the year then ended, and to provide a report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and...

We found that the company appears to be identifying only a small portion of potentially fraudulent medical claims made by individual medical service providers. Our work indicated that 14 percent of claims submitted by physicians, nurses, physical therapists and other individual providers from 2013...

Our audit objectives were to assess whether key contract provisions aimed at mitigating legal and financial risks were included in high-value, high-risk active contracts, and to assess the company’s contract record-keeping practices to identify opportunities, if any, for improvement. We have...

On January 30, 2018, an Amtrak supervisor was dismissed after an administrative hearing found that he violated company policy by accepting gifts and gratuities from Bayway Lumber (Bayway), a former Amtrak-approved vendor based in Linden, New Jersey.

On January 1, 2018, an Amtrak executive retired following the release of our investigative report, which concluded that he violated company policy by accepting gifts from the owner of a company doing business with Amtrak as both a customer and vendor.

On November 1, 2017, the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County sentenced an Amtrak B&B Mechanic Foreman to 6-23 months of confinement and 36 months’ probation for the Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession with the Intent to Manufacture or Deliver narcotics.

I am pleased to submit our latest Semiannual Report to the United States Congress. This report highlights the activities of our office for the six months ending September 30, 2017, pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. Throughout this period, our office continued to provide...

In August 2016, Amtrak (the company) received a federal loan1 to purchase 28 new high-speed trainsets for $1.6 billion and undertake 10 infrastructure improvements needed to operate and maintain these trains for $850 million. Collectively, these projects—called the Acela Express 2021 program...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of Amtrak’s (the company) website security program. Our audit objective was to assess whether current controls provide reasonable assurance that the company’s publicly accessible websites are secure.The company uses numerous information...

On September 27, 2017, a former Amtrak electrician pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, to theft of Amtrak property. He was sentenced to two days in jail (time considered served), two years of probation and was ordered to pay $1,199.57 in restitution.