A  Bozeman, Montana postal contractor has been sentenced to five years on probation and ordered to repay just over $70,000 for failing to deposit money into an employee benefit plan.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Racicot:

Munson owned DDCS Express Inc., which contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to operate mail routes.

Munson was trustee of DDCS’s employee benefit plan. Employees could make voluntary contributions through salary reductions. In addition, the plan was to receive fringe benefit contributions from the Postal Service contracts.

In July 2010, a DDCS employee complained to the Employee Benefits Security Administration, saying that Munson hadn’t deposited the required amounts into the plan and hadn’t filed reports disclosing the financial conditions of the plan.

An investigation determined that Munson didn’t make any deposits into the plan from January 2007 through June 2010. He also failed to pay his employees all of the fringe benefits due. The total loss totaled about $70,770.

During that same period, Munson also wrote himself company checks totaling approximately $744,000.