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 […]
October 29, 2015 CLEVELAND — The former postmaster of the Gates Mills Post Office was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to repay approximately $57,000 that she stole, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Monica Weyler, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service […]
October 19, 2015 Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced former letter carrier Takisha Cole, age 33, of Washington, D.C. today to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, use of a communications device to facilitate drug trafficking and bribery. The […]
October 7, 2015 BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Michael Lamacchia, 48, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of mail, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth R. Moellering, who handled the case, stated that the defendant, who worked […]
PRC says USPS OIG is mandated under PAEA – – not the Commission to audit data collection systems U.S. Postal Service (USPS) measurement of on-time delivery performance has expanded greatly over the past 9 years, but remains incomplete because only 55 percent of market-dominant mail (primarily First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, Periodicals, and Package Services) is […]
September 25, 2015 Per OMB Circular A-11 Section 124: The USPS OIG will have 1,138 employees on board before implementation of the plan. Total number of employees to be retained under the plan: The USPS OIG will retain 510 employees under the plan. source: USPS OIG
September 28, 2015 Self-driving vehicles might seem like a plot device in a science fiction movie — think iRobot or Total Recall – but actually, they’re already here. Google and other companies have been testing driverless vehicles for several years, and some aspects of semi-autonomous vehicle technology, like automatic parallel parking, are available in some […]
USPS OIG Report: Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program (DVAAP) in the [Redacted] District September 9, 2015 The Postal Service is one of the nation’s largest employers of veterans and disabled veterans and conducts a continuing affirmative action program to recruit, hire, place, and advance disabled veterans. The Postal Service employs 89,319 veterans, which represents 18.3 […]
September 1, 2015 Baltimore, Maryland – Tonya Lucille Higgs, age 50, of Owings Mills, Maryland pleaded guilty today to misappropriation of postal funds. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge Paul L. Bowman of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of […]