So the Drug Enforcement Agency paid an AMTRAK secretary some $850,000 for providing confidential passenger list information?- AMTRAK says she was a "train and engine crew secretary. Why would they need one?
- I know AMTRAK has been improving its passenger load, but doesn't that work out to about a thousand dollars a name?
- What is the normal pay for that position at AMTRAK?
- During all of the time she was taking the money, AMTRAK was losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Did she even think for a second the company might need the revenue?
- Has the IRS begun an investigation? I mean, did she claim all of that money on her income returns?
- I know in these post 9-11 years just about any information the government wants the government gets, but for about five of the years she was taking home a bonus of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it was before 9-11.
- The story says the DEA could have had the information FREE under government regulations. What was the DEA smoking?
- Finally, AMTRAK says she was allowed to RETIRE, without any personnel action, even though she never mentioned her little side job to her bosses? What do you have to do at AMTRAK get disciplined? Take an entire train home for your kids to play with in the back yard?
Perhaps the answers are in the posted AMTRAK budget--95 pages of which are located online
HERE.
P.S. AMTRAK will not name the secretary, and I know it could be a male. I used "he" for convenience.
It's still awful, but this makes Amtrak look a bit better. From the WaPo...
ReplyDelete"The Amtrak inspector general’s office said the employee handed over the information “without seeking approval from Amtrak management or the Amtrak Police Department.” The report, released in June, said the company removed the worker from service and filed charges against the individual."