For almost 40 years, Amtrak has been a burden on American taxpayers. It has a record of inefficiency, incompetence and overspending. Now we can add corruption to that. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that in 2001, several former Amtrak officials “booked false or incorrect accounting entries in Amtrak’s monthly financial statements” while providing a “rosy” financial picture to investigators and members of Congress.

To add insult to injury, The Washington Times reports that Amtrak “advanced nearly $150,000 in legal fees combined on behalf of the two unnamed people who were being investigated, though an outside consulting firm later determined that ‘neither individual acted in good faith.’”