6/25/2018 CHICAGO — The owners of a suburban bulk-mailing company swindled the U.S. Postal Service out of at least $16 million by forging documents and secretly using an official date stamp to fraudulently authenticate payment of postage for than 80 million pieces of mail, according to criminal charges filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office […]
6/22/2018 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – YVONNE WILSON, age 37, of Kenner, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to embezzlement of mail matter by a postal service employee, announced U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon sentenced WILSON to three (3) years’ probation and ordered her to pay restitution […]
6/19/2018 ROCKFORD — A McHenry woman was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury for theft from the U.S. mail. JENNIFER L. DUNCAN, 51, a former U.S. Postal worker, was charged in a one-count indictment. As alleged in the indictment, on Feb. 20, 2018, Duncan removed approximately $3,500 from mail addressed to an individual in […]
6/13/2018 HOUSTON – A federal jury has convicted a 47-year-old Humble woman of making false statements and theft of public money, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. They deliberated for approximately an hour following less than three days of trial convicting Lisa Yvette Coffman. Coffman was a 29-year federal postal employee. She sustained a job-related injury […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – Four individuals pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to federal tax charges arising out of an investigation into payments to vendors who performed maintenance on United States Postal Service vehicles in Rhode Island, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal […]
Mid-State Trucking Company Agrees To Settle Contract And Common Law Allegations Tracie McCormick, Inc., d/b/a McCormick Trucking (“McCormick”), based in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle contract and common law allegations of double billing the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) under its contracts for hauling mail, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for […]
Richmond Heights man sentenced to 15 years in prison for receiving four pounds of methamphetamine and Postal Service letter carrier sentenced to eight years in prison for diverting and delivering packages of drugs 5/9/2018 A Richmond Heights man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for receiving more than four pounds of methamphetamine from California, […]
2/13/18 NEWARK, N.J. – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier today admitted that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Leonard Gresham, 50, of Rahway, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther D. Salas in Newark federal court to […]
1/25/18 U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans, announces the filing of charges against LEXY LOPEZ-BATEMAN, age 40, of Slidell. According to court documents, LOPEZ-BATEMAN was an employee of the United States Postal Service when she suffered an on-the-job injury in 2015. She was therefore entitled to workers compensation benefits, including costs of travel to and from […]
Former Postal Employee Sentenced to over 6 Years in Federal Prison for Selling at Least 6,240 Credit Cards Stolen from the U.S. Mail 12/11/17 SANTA ANA, California – A Garden Grove man who worked for the United States Postal Service for more than two decades was sentenced today to 75 months in federal prison for […]