Massachusetts Postal Worker Sentenced for Embezzling over $20,000 in payments from customers

BOSTON – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was sentenced today for embezzling over $20,000 in payments from customers. Austin Correia, 22, of New Bedford, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris to 24 months of probation, with the first three months to be served in home confinement, and 25 hours […]

Oakland CA Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Alter U.S. Postal Money Orders

11/8/17 Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARREN BRANDON WILLIAMS, age 29, of Oakland, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal money orders.  According to the court records, WILLIAMS conspired with others in the New Orleans area to buy U.S. Postal money orders in small amounts (typically $1.00).  These money […]

New Orleans man pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute fake postal money orders

Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CORTEZ THOMPSON, age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.  According to court documents, from in or about December 2012 and continuing though in or about June 2013, THOMPSON and his co-conspirators were involved in a scheme to unlawfully obtain money […]

Two Connecticut residents sentenced in postal money order fraud scheme

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two former residents of Danbury were sentenced yesterday in Hartford federal court for participating in a conspiracy involving the theft of monies from the U.S. Postal Service.  U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea sentenced TONY STERLIN CANTAVE, 34, to 13 months […]