Two local post office managers colluded with a landscaping and cleaning company in a scheme to submit bogus invoices to the U.S. government and keep some of the proceeds, according to federal court documents unsealed Tuesday.

Richard Wright, 37, the manager of the Waverly Post Office, and Kimberly Parnell, 43, the manager of the Pikesville Post Office, were charged with bribery in the case. Shane Anderson, who operates a landscaping firm, was also charged.

Authorities filed criminal complaints against Wright, 46, of Essex, and Kimberly Parnell, 43, the manager of the Pikesville post office branch, accusing them of collectively taking tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from landscaping and janitorial contractors who had been paid based on bogus invoices.

From 2007 to February 2013, authorities say, a contractor at the Waverly branch had been paid $419,000 for work that had been partially completed or, more often, not done at all. Prosecutors said the tab was more than $32,000 at Parnell’s Pikesville branch.

Detailed allegations in the white-collar bribery case read similarly to many of the street crime cases that come through Baltimore’s federal courthouse, with Wright demanding payment from co-conspirators, discussing drug deals, and chambering a round in a handgun as someone approached his house.
via Waverly, Pikesville post office managers charged with taking bribes – baltimoresun.com.