Amtrak got taken for a ride by 119 workers in a massive $12 million scheme — but more than half of them are still on the company payroll, an internal watchdog found.
The workers ripped off Amtrak’s health plan in a kickback scam that saw them taking bribes from crooked doctors who then filed fake claims — and some employees went full mob and shook down medical providers for their cut of the cash, the company’s Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday
“The sheer volume of employees who cavalierly participated in this scheme to steal Amtrak’s funds suggests not only a serious lapse in basic ethics, but a troubling workforce culture, at least in the Northeast region, in which blatant criminal behavior was somehow normalized,” Inspector General Kevin H. Winters said.
Some of the allegedly dirty workers — mostly located in the New York to DC region — even handed over their kids’ insurance information for the con that ran from 2019 to 2022, according to the OIG’s office…