HOUSTON – A 26-year-old Houston postal worker may already be back on the job just one day after being charged by the feds.
D’angela Domio [a City Carrier Assistant for two years] and five others are accused of preying on people’s personal information and stealing money.
The six suspects all face “theft of public money” charges. According to documents, the four men and two women worked as a team of criminals to file false tax returns using people’s personal information and then stole the government issued tax refunds.
That judge told Domio she could return to her job as a postal worker as long as she did not open envelopes. There were no objections in the courtroom.
According to the US Attorney’s office:
Six people were taken into custody following the return of a 32-count indictment alleging wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, theft of public money and conspiracy to do so as well as aggravated identity theft.
A federal grand jury returned the indictment Oct. 26, 2016. That indictment alleges two schemes – a conspiracy to steal money from bank accounts and a conspiracy involving the filing of false tax returns and aggravated identity theft.
All six are charged with conspiring to file false tax returns and claiming refunds to which they were not entitled. The indictment alleges that once the fraudulent refunds were paid, the conspirators drained the money before it could be frozen. As part of this conspiracy, the indictment also alleges they each engaged in aggravated identity theft by using victims’ identification without authorization to commit these offenses.
The charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud each carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, while a conviction for theft of public money is punishable by a maximum of 10 years imprisonment. Each defendant also faces a maximum of five years in federal prison upon conviction of the conspiracy. Each conviction also carries a possible $250,000 fine.
The FBI Houston Cyber Task Force and IRS-CI conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Houston Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Chu is prosecuting the case.
Before she gets fired she will probably get “injured on the job”. This way she can get paid until the end of time like so many others.
We found a new presidential candidate!
The new age Postal Service. See it more and more. Commit a crime, go against policy they either get a brief vacation and get job back or not punished at all. They come back with the attitude of you can’t touch me.
Am I the only one who thinks something’s wrong with this judge??? I’m glad I don’t live in Houston. I think I’ll be moving all my important correspondence online.
And, D’angela, thanks for giving all letter carriers a bad reputation.
Actually something’s wrong with the US Attorney,who must have been asleep and was supposed to object to her being returned to duty when everyone is put on emergency off duty non-paid status until the case is adjudicated or the person simply resigns.
a dark day in the once great Postal Department!
Are you kidding me? If that was career employee they would be on the street
Must need the help
Boss wouldn’t want to deliver the mail
Can’t fire a innocent person
Wait, a person was charged with id theft is allowed to carry mail? WTF ?!?!
New day, new postal operation
Sounds like a little nepotism or cronyism here. If a postal employee is charged with a felony. They would normally be put on emergency placement pending the outcome.
If you steal from the mails it’s grounds for removal,period. Don’t think this could override an arbitrator’s certain ruling to affirm her removal if management goes that way. Surely they will appeal and the appellate judge will not order her returned to her job.
WTF!