Healthcare Fraud Investigation Results in Departure of Seventeen Amtrak Employees

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –– The Amtrak Office of Inspector General announced today that seventeen Amtrak employees have resigned over a healthcare fraud investigation.

The press release from the Amtrak OIG is below.

“Seventeen Amtrak employees based at New York Penn Station or the NW Base in New
Jersey, consisting of two Gang Foremen, four linemen, three truck drivers, six 3rd Rail
welders, one trackman, and one electronic technician resigned in connection with an
OIG investigation of alleged healthcare fraud. Five of those who resigned were among
10 current and former employees charged by indictment June 20, 2024, with conspiracy
to commit health care fraud.

“The resignations occurred between July 15 and September 12, 2024. Our investigation
found that the employees participated in an $11 million health care fraud scheme
beginning in 2019 and continuing to June 2022 involving health care providers and
others who recruited Amtrak employees—primarily from New Jersey and New York—
to participate in the scheme. The employees were given cash payments in exchange for
allowing the health care providers to use their patient and insurance information to
submit fraudulent claims to Amtrak’s health care plan for services that they never
provided or that were medically unnecessary.”