BRIDGEPORT — (AP) A former postal official is facing sentencing for bribery, fraud and tax offenses. Robert Giulietti of Cheshire is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in federal court in Bridgeport.
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According to court documents and statements made in court, GIULIETTI was a Facilities Project Manager for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) at the USPS Northeast Facilities Office in Windsor, Conn. GIULIETTI’s duties included recommending and selecting facilities improvement contractors, reviewing and approving bids received from those contractors for USPS work, certifying the completion of work by contractors and approving payment authorizations. In pleading guilty, GIULIETTI admitted that he accepted approximately $89,000 from two contractors to direct inflated USPS facilities construction contracts to them.
Also, in approximately September 2009, GIULIETTI formed MGC LLC to do business with the USPS on projects on which he worked. MGC was owned in name by GIULIETTI’s wife, and its business address was his home address in Cheshire. Operating MGC from his USPS office in Windsor, GIULIETTI used his position to direct USPS contracts to MGC, to approve MGC’s work and to authorize payment to MGC for work. After GIULIETTI directed USPS contracts to MGC, he engaged other contractors to perform the actual work involved with the project. GIULIETTI generated almost a million dollars in profit by having MGC charge USPS more than MGC had to pay the contractors who performed the actual work.
Between November 2009 and November 2011, GIULIETTI directed more than 150 USPS facility projects to MGC, causing a loss to the USPS of approximately $982,064.68.
GIULIETTI also filed false federal income tax returns for the 2008 through 2011 tax years by fraudulently deducting payments from MGC to members of his family, and by not reporting the corrupt payments that he received.
“This defendant was a corrupt federal employee who perpetrated a multifaceted and brazen scheme that defrauded the Postal Service of nearly a million dollars,” stated U.S. Attorney Daly. “I commend the USPS Office of Inspector General, the Connecticut FBI and IRS-Criminal Investigation for their excellent work in this investigation, which included the seizure of significant assets of approximately $740,000 in cash and a house in Cheshire.”
GIULIETTI was arrested on December 13, 2012. Today, he pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a public official, one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return.
USPS Facilities Project Manager Pleads Guilty To $1 million Bribery, Fraud and Tax Charges
Probably on administrative leave with pay for a couple of more years.
How long did it take the snoops at OIG to find out this was going on? This guy got away with this for a while, whoever is in charge of over seeing this guy’s job should be fired. This is no small matter and the penalties should be heavy, not only for Giulettie but also for all his family members that were involved. He had to have some one over him in Windsor and they should be canned too. OIG goes after a craft employee for using 15 minutes over at lunch with a vengeance but over look a guy stealing millions? Some one should pay a price for this incompetence too!
Fired the day he was arrested.
He is a postal manager. Watch he will get a slap on the wrist and then be allowed to carry on with his life. The question is was he retired or fired? He doesn’t deserve any benefits, he deserves jail time. I wondered what will happen?
Ho hum.
Another day, another tale of a corrupt, thieving postal mgr.
Of course, there will be no repercussions or accountability.
That, only applies to the crafts.
Most often when these cases are exposed, it’s because the one caught is made into a fall guy, because he or she didn’t pass on the agreed upon cut to their higher level mgr, and they rate them out.
he will probably get his job back and be allowed to work at some
facility somewhere. they protect their own.