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Former Amtrak IT official, two others indicted on bribery charges

Summary by trains.com
PHILADELPHIA — A former Amtrak information technology official and two vendors have been indicted in a bribery case involving millions of dollars of Amtrak IT work. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Richard Thompson, 47, of Falls Church, Va., was Amtrak’s former director of network planning and engineering. He was indicted on a charge of honest services wire fraud through bribery, along with Shaun …
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trains.com broke the news in on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
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