12/17/2020 ATLANTA – Former Postal employee Markeyta McAllister pleaded guilty to Obstruction of United States Mail for stealing cash and gift cards from more than 15 letters. “While most U.S. Postal Service employees serve Americans with integrity and honesty – McAllister did not,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “By opening peoples’ mail to […]
The USPS Office of Inspector General reviewed the postal service’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic, and issued the following findings and recommendations: While we recognize the challenges facing the Postal Service during the pandemic, we identified three areas where the Postal Service can better protect its employees: (1) face covering policy, (2) contact tracing […]
Marine Veteran & USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins Stands By Original Account: I Did Not Recant; Hopkins Describes More Than Three Hours Kept in Room Without Lawyer or Union Rep With Post Office Agents: ‘Grilling the Hell Out of Me…I Just Got Played’ USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins: “I don’t care who wins this election–I really don’t…the […]
Former postal worker also admits embezzling from the mail 1/22/2020 – Seattle –A 39-year-old Tacoma resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement of mail by a postal employee. ILIGANOA THERESA LAUOFO illegally collected more than $267,000 over the course of a fraud scheme that […]
1/15/2020 NEWARK, N.J. – A Bergen County, New Jersey, woman today admitted participating in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Estela Blaustein, 55, of Mahwah, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information charging her with one count […]
1/15/2020 A Miami-Dade County resident was arrested on federal charges in connection with a $1.5 million mail and wire fraud scheme that targeted the United States Postal Service. Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Christopher Cave, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), Southern […]
LOVETTSVILLE, Va. – The U.S. postal worker who was shot outside a Loudoun County post office this month was a package thief who tried to ram his car into a federal agent’s vehicle, police say. Court records filed in Loudoun District Court say 32-year-old Nelson Clark Jr. was under investigation for stealing packages out of […]
Postage stamps, records manipulation, and a clandestine call to report suspicions. It has the makings of a good series to binge watch on a rainy weekend. Instead, it’s a recent audit report on improving the controls around stamp stock at postal retail outlets. And it started with a call to our Hotline to report suspicious […]
11/29/18 RALEIGH, NC – Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces the unsealing of an Indictment charging KELVIN DONNELL JOHNSON, KHADIR ELIJAH BEAMON, TIMOTHY LYDELL JONES, CARVIS CHARLES MARABLE, and BRANDON DARNELL MCNEILL with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and theft of mail. According to the allegations in […]
8/31/18 Defendant Caught on Video Working at Flea Markets in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Lifting and Carrying Heavy Objects A complaint was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Joseph Penatello, a former motor vehicle operator for the United States Postal Service (USPS), with making false statements to obtain federal employees’ compensation. Penatello was […]