SYRACUSE, NEW YORK –Yesterday Grover Horn, 71, of Cayuga County, New York, pled guilty and was sentenced in federal court for embezzling money orders and cash from the U.S. Post Office in Martville, New York, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge, United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), Northeast Area Field Office. Following the entry of his guilty plea, Horn was sentenced to a one (1) year term of probation and 50 hours of community service. The defendant was also ordered to pay more than $6,000 in restitution to the United States Postal Service.
The defendant admitted in court that he used his position as Postmaster to embezzle more than $6,000 in money orders and cash over a period of several weeks during July and September 2015. Horn was an employee of the Postal Service for more than 30 years.
This case was investigated by USPS Office of Inspector General and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael F. Perry.
It’s surprising that he did this after being 30 years in service. It can also be possible that he had been doing such acts earlier for fewer amounts which couldn’t be tracked due to some or the other reason. Firing him off is not the solution there are other ways to handle such situation as well.
Read the sentence that says “Horn” who WAS an employee of the
USPS for over 30 years. Sounds like he is no more and deservedly so.
Should also have to work his 50 hours of community service walking
along the roadway picking up trash where he can think about what he
threw away in salary (for doing nothing) as a postmaster and all the
retirement benefits he won’t be getting. That is if the Postal Service
moved fast enough to fire him.
Just another reason for the good ol boys to get together
and throw a big retirement bash for the scumbag.
Fire them all.
Manual Post Offices are vulnerable to Money Order theft, and there are rumors of instances like this across the district.
Why doesn’t USPS computerize these offices? Computerized offices tally (floor) stock & (issued) money orders daily.
USPS should run the numbers of computerizing manual offices verses losses like this one.
And note, the loss is much greater than six thousand dollars when you include the manpower it took to investigate.
If it was you or me it’s simple…YOUR FIRED. When it’s management it’s simple…probation or community service or restitution (one dollar per paycheck for 1000 years) but you get to keep your job and it gets swept under the carpet. 30 years and this is the first time he ever did anything like this? Highly unlikely or highly unusual? Nope. Remember when they used to send these hacks back into craft and they would immediately get injured and go out on a medical? I guess they had enough of that so just let them stay on as Postmasters etc.
how is this any different for the 110,000 po mismanagers getting bonus money when they have lost over 90 Billion since 2009! would billionaire Donald Trump give them a bonus or fire them? getting bonus money on phony numbers is a crime……..the GAO busted them 10 years ago but they still do it……….criminals who should be busted under RICO and sent to Levenworth!
If he had taken the $20,000 retirement incentive they offered two years ago he wouldn’t have done this,now it’s time to get out before the removal goes through.
And all i ask for is road assistance and i’m a thief!! hand in a 3996 form and see what happens!! I had a real O.I.C. witch in bridgewater. So bad i had to transfer. The union sucked as well. Would never back you up. No one sticks together anymore.
TSP….
Why don’t you go back and the read the post from 11/4/15 “Video: Former Pennsylvania Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Cash”, before you mouth off about management getting ‘slapped on the wrist’ when the CRAFT employee in the article I mentioned, got 1 year probation and had to pay back $500. NO JAIL TIME!!
What’s the matter, strike a bit to close to home ?
LMAO !
Another slap on the wrist, for yet another corrupt postal mgr.
I have yet to see a craft employee, caught doing similar crimes, get off this way.
To punish the management employee that stole, sentence him to 20 years as a CCA. That would be better than being locked up in the joint. He doesn’t need the Bernie Madoff suite.