Brandon Bostian, the engineer of Amtrak Train 188 when it derailed in Philadelphia in 2015, is scheduled Tuesday for a preliminary hearing where his attorneys will reportedly seek to have criminal charges related to the deadly crash dismissed.
The involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges were filed in May by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Only days earlier, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office – at the time, mired in former DA Seth Williams’ bribery scandal,…