PHILADELPHIA, PA — Federal authorities have charged three individuals, including a former Amtrak official, with engaging in alleged bribery schemes to manipulate the contracting process for lucrative projects. The indictment accuses Richard Thompson, 57, of Falls Church, Virginia, Shaun Hanrahan, 66, of Hampton, Virginia, and Darren Hannam, 57, of Haymarket, Virginia, of honest services fraud through bribery.
Richard Thompson, who served as Amtrak’s Director of Network Planning and Engineering, is alleged to have exploited his leadership position to steer contracts toward favored vendors in exchange for personal benefits. According to the indictment, between 2015 and 2021, Thompson orchestrated schemes that involved three businesses, including those owned by Hanrahan, Hannam, and others. These schemes reportedly gave the vendors early access to proprietary Amtrak information and bypassed the competitive bidding process.
Hanrahan owned Awarity, LLC, a management consulting and computer services business. Hannam, along with a co-conspirator, was a principal at Arch Technology, an IT firm. A third company, 20/20 Teknology, owned by another co-conspirator, was also implicated in the scheme…