SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Priscilla Czyz, age 37, of Cato, New York, was sentenced today to 6 months of probation for obstructing the mail, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, United States Postal Service-Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Northeast Area Field Office. In pleading guilty to […]
United Parcel Service Agrees to Settle Alleged Civil False Claims Act Violations May 19, 2015 United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages, the Justice Department announced today. UPS […]
Bay Area Psychologist Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Submitting Falsified Billing Records To Federal Workers’ Compensation Program April 22, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO – Helena Weil was sentenced today to four months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $496,101 related to her submission of billings to the federal Office of Workers’ Compensation […]
(September 18, 2014) Boston – A Quincy woman was sentenced yesterday for sending multiple bomb, anthrax and other death threats through the U.S. mail, e-mail and Twitter. Linda Louise Culkin, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. to 51 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to […]
DENVER – A U.S. Postal Service city carrier working in Golden, Colorado was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn for theft of United States Mail by employee. The former Postal Service city carrier, John J. Bonney, age 37, of Westminster, Colorado was sentenced to serve 2 years probation. He resigned from […]
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Jane Johanna Emily, a/k/a Jane Moeller, 41, of St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty in federal district court on April 22, 2014, to charges that she opened and stole packages from the U.S. Mail. The federal grand jury charged Emily […]
OWENSBORO, Ky. – A former United States Postal Service Employee from Dawson Springs, Kentucky was sentenced on April 17, 2014 to six months in prison followed by six months of home incarceration for destroying, hiding and delaying the delivery of at least 44,900 pieces of mail announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the […]
APWU Web News Article 095-2013, Aug. 12, 2013 In a bold step to protect the privacy rights of injured workers, the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) has indefinitely suspended the Postal Service’s ability to review, receive, and transfer Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) information and documents electronically. The decision was made in consultation with […]
NEWARK, N.J. – A former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her role in a scheme to intercept cocaine-laden packages mailed from Puerto Rico to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Christina Nunez, 30, of Lyndhurst, N.J., previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas […]
BOSTON – A former contractor to the United States Postal Service was sentenced today for stealing credit cards from a mail-sorting facility while on the job, and then using the credit cards to commit fraud. Gerald K. Acholonu, 33, of Braintree, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns to four years and three […]