Evergreen Reporter

Maurice Driver, 35, of Gloucester City, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to one count of lying to a Federal Agent, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Special Agent in Charge Mike Waters of the Amtrak Office of Inspector General Eastern Area Field Office.

According to court documents, Driver was employed by Amtrak and was working as a Lead Service Attendant in the café car on an Amtrak train that departed from Washington, D.C. in the afternoon of January 3, 2024, and ended in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 4, 2024. While working on that train, Driver met a passenger. Driver spoke and texted with the passenger and allowed her to use a vacant sleeper car on the train. On January 4 in Chicago, that passenger reported to Amtrak Police that Driver sexually assaulted her in a sleeper car on the train. Amtrak-OIG then initiated an investigation into the sexual assault allegations.

During an interview with an Amtrak-OIG Special Agent, Driver made multiple false and misleading statements about his communications and contacts with the passenger, denying that he gave the passenger his personal phone number or texted with her and that he showed her to a sleeper car.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson scheduled sentencing for November 6, 2024.

This case was investigated by the Amtrak OIG with assistance from the Amtrak Police Department. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rebecca G. Ross and Brian P. Kelly of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.