we initiated an investigation into allegations that an amtrak supervisor may have been involved with improprieties related to his position. while the company previously terminated the supervisor on september 12, 2016 based on our investigative findings that the supervisor violated company policies, our investigation also found that two amtrak foremen performed work at the residence of the…
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amtrak’s (the company) fleet of 269 general electric (ge) diesel locomotives power trains on 15 long-distance routes and 26 state-supported routes. these routes are an important source of company revenue, generating about $945 million in fiscal year 2016—about 44 percent of total ticket revenue. since 2001, the company has contracted with ge to provide a variety of parts and related services to…
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seven defendants including owners, doctors, a manager, and a laboratory representative of sober homes and alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers were charged for their participation in a health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
wifredo a. ferrer, united states attorney for the…
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on march 11, 2015, we initiated an audit of the company’s accounting for business lines of operation. the objective of this audit was to review the effectiveness and efficiency of the company’s financial systems and data supporting the accumulation and allocation of costs for the company’s business lines of operation.
the audit was to also assess whether the company implemented recommendations…
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on april 16, 2015, we initiated an audit of amtrak's (the company) management of eligibility determinations for agreement employees’ healthcare benefits. our objective was to assess the company’s process for ensuring it paid medical claims only for eligible agreement employees, their dependents, and retirees during calendar years 2013 through 2015.
during the audit, we observed some control…
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we initiated a joint investigation with the amtrak police department and the u.s. general services administration (gsa) office of inspector general into allegations that an amtrak assistant track supervisor misused his two assigned gsa fuel cards to conduct fraudulent transactions. the investigation disclosed that, from may 24, 2015, to july 28, 2015, these two fuel cards were used to conduct 88…
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on novemb 16 2015 we initi an audit of the adequaci of amtrak s manag and oversight of it construct and special equip and vehicl which was a follow up to audit work we had previous initi howev we suspend work on this audit in januari 2016 to focus on other higher prioriti audit we are not resum this work and are termin the audit we appreci the time and cooper provid by amtrak personnel particular…
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we are initi an audit of the compani s effort to ensur the physic secur of it passeng employe and critic infrastructur our object are to 1 assess the compani s strategi and plan for physic secur and 2 identifi challeng if ani to achiev the compani s secur goal we may revis our scope or modifi our object dure the cours of the audit dure the audit we plan to interview compani offici other rail…
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two owner of sober home and alcohol and drug addict treatment center pled guilti for their particip in a multi million dollar health care fraud and money launder scheme that involv the file of fraudul insur claim form and defraud health care benefit program benjamin g greenberg act unit state attorney for the southern district of florida georg l piro special agent in charg feder bureau of…
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on januari 23 2017 an amtrak ticket agent was arrest on state charg relat to defraud amtrak of good and servic obtain through amtrak s employe rail pass program our investig found that the employe use her amtrak employe rail pass to reserv ticket in her depend name and suppli them to individu who were not elig for travel benefit we also found that the employe appli for rail pass benefit reserv…
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