BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK – Christine O’Neill, age 61, of Johnson City, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to serve three (3) years on probation for defrauding the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Department of Labor of $46,287 by making false statements and representations to obtain federal workers […]
NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted defrauding the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers Compensation, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Janeide Chillis, 53, of Irvington, New Jersey, pleaded guilty by teleconference before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to an information charging her with one count of making false […]
October 3, 2019 – A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier who claimed more than a decade of total disability related to a back injury he suffered in 1989 had his conviction affirmed by a federal appeals court Tuesday after evidence from surveillance and social media posts proved he was able to perform tasks he had […]
9/12/18 Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Elizabeth Correa (60, Tampa) with three counts of wire fraud, three counts of false statement or fraud to obtain federal employees’ compensation, one count of theft of government funds, and one count of making a false statement to […]
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 […]
4/5/2018 Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Making Fraudulent Claims for Federal Workers’ Compensation Benefits U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announces the guilty plea today by LEXY LOPEZ-BATEMAN, age 40, of Slidell, before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk. According to court documents, LOPEZ-BATEMAN was an employee of the United States Postal Service when she suffered […]
A former Dayton-area U.S. Postal Service worker is alleged to have participated in 35 motorcycle races during an 18-month period in which he was disabled or on light duty, according to federal court documents. Jerry French was indicted last week in Dayton’s U.S. District Court on counts of making false, fictitious and fraudulent statements to […]
3/7/18 – While Susan J. Gissy managed to avoid a lengthy prison sentence for fraudulently collecting workers’ compensation, the Citrus County woman and former local mail carrier still has to repay every cent she stole from the U.S. government. During Gissy’s Monday sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse in Ocala, Judge Roy B. Dalton […]
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 […]
12/5/17 Richard Klaffka posed as a disabled veteran and postal worker for more than decade. His act, which included a wheelchair he didn’t need, was good enough to reap $1.2 million in fraudulent disability benefits. Klaffka, 59, of Holland, is now going to prison. “It was like a way of life,” U.S. District Judge Richard […]