A contractor at 30th Street Station who bribed an Amtrak manager with luxury watches and vacations was sentenced to nearly five years in prison

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by Chris Palmer Updated June 3, 2025, 5:18 p.m. ET | Published June 3, 2025, 4:56 p.m. ET

A former executive at a construction firm that helped restore 30th Street Station’s limestone facade was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in federal prison for securing his company’s role in the project by showering an Amtrak supervisor with bribes.

Donald Seefeldt, 65, of Wilmette, Ill., worked with his colleagues to provide more than $323,000 in gifts over three years to the Amtrak project manager, Ajith Bhaskaran, including luxury watches, vacations to India and Ecuador, limousine rentals, meals, and cash, prosecutors said. Others at Seefeldt’s firm, Mark 1 Restoration, even bou