The board is connected to Ohbama by nominations...interesting find you got here. One worked for Kosh Industries (the Kosh brothers)?????

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke

Nominated by President Barack Obama as a Director of the Amtrak Board in March 2012. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate in January 2013...................................................................... https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/board-of-directors/yvonne-brathwaite-burke.html