11/13/17 – Durant, OK Man Sentenced To 36 Months Probation For Delay Or Destruction Of Mail By Postal Employee MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Shawn Justin Fischer, age 36, of Durant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for Delay or Destruction Of […]
10/11/2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury has charged 13 individuals with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud in an 18-count superseding indictment returned here today. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Christopher White, Assistant Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Monica S. Weyler, […]
Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History 7/13/17 Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115 doctors, […]
October 13, 2015 United States Settles with Pitney Bowes Presort Services for Underpaying Postage Owed to U.S. Postal Service The Department of Justice announced today that Pitney Bowes Presort Services Inc. (Pitney Bowes) has agreed to pay the United States $9.4 million to resolve allegations that it underpaid postage for mail processed at its Reading, […]
Yesterday, Kaleb Matias Wiewandt, 36, of Los Angeles, Calif., was sentenced by United States District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 51-months in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution. Wiewandt previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for conspiring with others to steal several million postage stamps from the […]
May 7, 2015 A federal grand jury returned a federal indictment charging Drew D. Manns, 31, of Elyria, with using the United States Postal Service to make threats with a white powdery substance, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Manns sent Summit County Clerks and Prosecutor’s Office letters including a white […]
3/30/2015 – In San Antonio today, 68-year-old Marvis Charles Box of Converse, TX, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing an estimated $478,000 of United States Postal Service equipment announced Acting United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, Houston Division. In addition to […]
A former U.S. Postal Service contracting officer, along with a mail delivery contractor, were indicted today for engaging in a scheme to defraud the Postal Service through bribery and kickbacks in connection with the awarding of contracts to deliver the mail. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney […]
Former Letter Carrier was sentenced to federal prison in November 2014 for providing “inside information” that culminated in the robbery and shooting of the postal contract driver on December 20, 2013, in Conley, Ga Attack, robbery of postal truck driver gets two men nearly 20 years in prison ATLANTA, GEORGIA 1/7/15 – Kendrick Watkins and […]
Former CBS reporter Attkisson sues U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and several unnamed federal employees Washington, D.C., (January 5, 2015)—Investigative Journalist Sharyl Attkisson has filed administrative claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service, and certain unnamed employees and/or agents of the federal […]