Last month a 16-year veteran New York letter carrier pleaded guilty to his role in a drug distribution ring. Today, a second letter carrier also admitted to accepting payments to carrying boxes of drugs shipped to specific addresses. her federal charges of accepting bribes to deliver packages after he was implicated in a drug trafficking […]
2/5/16 – A former Evansville postal service employee has received three years of federal probation for stealing mail with prescription painkillers intended for military veterans. Kevin R. Hicks, 55, appeared in U.S. District Court at Evansville on Thursday for sentencing. He pleaded guilty to three counts of mail theft in June. The medication was intended […]
A letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service has been charged with defrauding the Department of Labor, law enforcement officials said. Douglas A. Joachim, 51, of Wadsworth, concealed and falsified his medical condition and physical abilities to the Labor Department’s worker’s compensation program. He is employed as a letter carrier and, on numerous occasions, was […]
Postal Support Employee (PSE) and siblings posted some of the stolen sports trading cards online to sell. 1/29/16 BOSTON – A Dorchester woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing 23 sports trading cards valued at $68,668 from the U.S. Mail while working as a clerk at the U.S. Post Office […]
1/28/16 BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Dennis Bernhard, 56, of Derby, N.Y., pleaded guilty to bribery before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who is handling the case, stated […]
Montgomery, AL –A Phenix City, Alabama resident was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $116,636 in restitution for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. […]
MADISON, WIS. — John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ruthmarie Haanen, 44, Milltown, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen L. Crocker to one year of probation for stealing money from the Milltown Post Office while she was a postal employee. Haanen pleaded guilty to […]
2nd Former Postal Support Employee (PSE) Sentenced in Mail Theft Conspiracy January 8, 206 PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Joan Manuel Mustafa, 28, of Providence, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal U.S. Treasury checks from the U.S. mail, and either sell them on the street or […]
Twenty-one claimants, four doctors or medical providers, a senior claims examiner at DOL, a claims representative, and a medical provider’s employee were charged in the scheme. All but two defendants have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in the scheme. In total, the defendants were able to collectively fraudulently bill the federal government through the […]
Stole Identities of Individuals on Her Mail Route for Use in Filing False Tax Returns November 12, 2015 An Alabama resident and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to false claims, aggravated identity […]