Amtrak taken for a ride in wild $12M scam by 119 workers, but more than half keep their jobs: probe

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Amtrak taken for a ride in wild $12M scam by 119 workers, but more than half keep their jobs: probe

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 ..