At least 119 current and former Amtrak employees conspired with New York medical professionals to swindle the company’s health care plan out of over $12 million, the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday of what it described as the largest employee conspiracy it has ever investigated. “The sheer volume…
A person with a confirmed measles infection may have exposed Amtrak passengers on a train to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, officials at the D.C. Department of Health said. Health officials said Monday in a statement that the agency “was notified of a confirmed case of measles in a person who visited multiple locations in D.C….
Almost since Amtrak’s creation in 1971, the 21,000-mile U.S. intercity passenger rail service has been fighting calls that it should be privatized. Now it may have met one of its most aggressive and powerful skeptics yet. Speaking at a tech conference on Wednesday, Elon Musk added Amtrak to the list of government-funded services on his…
STORY: Elon Musk may have a new target. The billionaire leading Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts says it’s time to sell off Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service. Speaking Wednesday at a conference run by Morgan Stanley, he said the government should privatize everything that can be privatized. Musk said he thought such moves would need…
(CNN) – There’s no doubt where Elon Musk stands on privatization. He said during a conference Wednesday that he believes the U.S. should make private anything that can be reasonably privatized. That includes the U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak. During the conference, Musk referenced the vast train transportation systems in other countries, calling Amtrak “a…