Top Railroad Safety Official Resigns Amid Questions About Holding A Second Job : NPR
Heath Hall
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Heath Hall  who became the Federal Railroad Administration's acting chief in June   resigned Saturday after a Politico report raised questions about whether  he  was simultaneously working another job.
"DOT was unaware of the information that is being reported regarding outside  work Heath Hall  took on during  his  time at FRA  but those allegations  if true  are troubling " DOT said in a statement Saturday.
 Hall  had been on leave since early January for what the Department is calling a "family matter."
"Attempts to reach  Hall  were unsuccessful " Politico also reported Saturday.
"He subsequently appeared at least twice in local media reports last summer as a sheriff's spokesman in Madison County  Miss.  where he has long run a public relations and political consulting firm." "The firm also continued to receive payments from the county for its services from July through December  despite  Hall 's pledge in a federal ethics form that the business would be "dormant" while he worked at DOT. And Tiffany Lindemann  a former FRA public affairs official who left the agency in September  told POLITICO this week that she had fielded at least three requests from a Mississippi television journalist seeking to speak with  Hall  during the summer. This was during a period when  Hall  was in charge of an agency with a $1.7 billion budget  overseeing the safety of 760 railroads  a multibillion-dollar freight rail industry and the safety of millions of passengers."
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Heath Hall  who became the Federal Railroad Administration's acting chief in June   resigned Saturday after a Politico report raised questions about whether  he  was simultaneously working another job.
"DOT was unaware of the information that is being reported regarding outside  work  [TGT] took on during  his  time at FRA  but those allegations  if true  are troubling " DOT said in a statement Saturday.
  [TGT] had been on leave since early January for what the Department is calling a "family matter."
"Attempts to reach  Hall  were unsuccessful " Politico also reported Saturday.
"He subsequently appeared at least twice in local media reports last summer as a sheriff's spokesman in Madison County  Miss.  where he has long run a public relations and political consulting firm." "The firm also continued to receive payments from the county for its services from July through December  despite  Hall 's pledge in a federal ethics form that the business would be "dormant" while he worked at DOT. And Tiffany Lindemann  a former FRA public affairs official who left the agency in September  told POLITICO this week that she had fielded at least three requests from a Mississippi television journalist seeking to speak with  Hall  during the summer. This was during a period when  Hall  was in charge of an agency with a $1.7 billion budget  overseeing the safety of 760 railroads  a multibillion-dollar freight rail industry and the safety of millions of passengers."