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https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/amtrak-worker-steered-30k-from-polar-express-ride-to-wifes-business/Amtrak calls its annual Polar Express Train Ride a “magical experience.”
Now it turns out a Christmas-loving Amtrak employee used the event to make a $25,000 debt disappear in a new holiday episode of traditional Chicago graft.
Benjamin Sheets, 50, of Downers Grove is now the former head of Amtrak transportation at Union Station. He can be seen online raving about the scent of Christmas trees and his dream of owning a tree farm.
But he also faces a year or more in prison after pleading guilty in federal court Thursday to making false statements to the government. He admitted steering $30,000 in business from The Polar Express Train Ride event to his wife’s suburban photo company.
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Apparently he is the third of six Amtrak Managers in the Chicago area to be canned recently.
Meanwhile the fiasco that is Amtrak Chicago carries on ....