Delaware Business-Exec Sentenced for Amtrak Bribery Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/delaware-business-exec-sentenced-amtrak-bribery-scheme

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 22, 2019

Delaware Business-Exec Sentenced for Amtrak Bribery Scheme

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Donald Scott Crothers, 45, of Milford, Delaware was sentenced to 18 months’ incarceration and three years’ supervised release by United States District Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his role in a federal program bribery scheme involving millions of dollars in contracts with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”). Crothers’ co-defendant, John Gonzales, will be sentenced at a later date.

Crothers and Gonzales were both executives for a small, Delaware-based manufacturing firm; Crothers served as the firm’s Vice President for Marketing and Contract Administration. The pair bribed Timothy Miller, a Lead Contract Administrator working in procurement for Amtrak, with cash payments totaling approximately $20,000 and trips to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. In turn, Miller awarded more than $7.6 million in Amtrak contracts to the defendants’ firm – contracts which were federally funded through US Department of Transportation/Federal Railroad Administration grants. Miller pleaded guilty on April 11, 2018.
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