Postal employee sentenced to prison for workers comp fraud

Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that on Wednesday, January 18,2012, Karen A. Anderson-Bagshaw, 49, of Geneva, Ohio, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James S. Gwin to twelve months and one day imprisonment followed by two years supervised re lease, and ordered to pay $71,887.50 […]

Postal Worker Gets Probation for stealing Vets prescriptions from mail

BOISE – Guy K. Dunne, 45, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced today to two years of probation for theft of mail matter by a postal employee, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge fined Dunne $3,000 and ordered him to pay $255.11 in restitution, and costs of drug testing and […]

California Postal Worker Sentenced To Prison For Workers’ Compensation Fraud

January 9,2012 FRESNO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today Chief United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Karina S. Beard, 44, of Turlock, to one year in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for four counts of mail fraud and two counts of federal workers’ […]

Pennsylvania Postmaster Relief Found Guilty Of Misappropriating $2,600 In USPS Funds

PITTSBURGH, Pa – After a non-jury trial tried before Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill, Terri Oddo was found guilty of one count of misappropriation of postal funds, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Oddo, 43, of East Brady, Pennsylvania, was tried in Pittsburgh. According to Assistant United States Attorney Paul […]

Two Alabama Postal Employees Indicted for Stealing, Delaying and Destroying Mail

BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted two U.S. Postal employees for several mail-related violations, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Kenny Smith, assistant special agent in charge, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Postal Service. The grand jury charged the two Postal Service employees in separate indictments with delaying mail delivery and mail […]

DOJ Advises USPS To Resume FERS Payments Despite Overfunding Of $11.4 Billion

According to USPS: In June 2011, both the Postal Service and OPM agreed to seek a resolution  surrounding the Postal Service’s’ decision to withhold payments of its FERS contributions by submitting a request for a legal opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice. Based on advice received from the […]

Postal Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Taking Bribes

Denny Robinson, the Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor at the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) Vehicle Maintenance Facility (“VMF”) in Detroit pleaded guilty today to taking bribes in exchange for directing repair and maintenance work to a private contractor United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Joanne Yarbrough, Special […]

Former Senior Exec For USPS Sentenced To Two Years in Prison for Bribery

Defendant Offered Contracts in Return For Money, Took $15,000 – WASHINGTON – Ron Middlebrooks, a former senior executive with the U.S. Postal Service, was sentenced today to two years of incarceration on a bribery charge stemming from his acceptance of $15,000 in cash from a businessman he promised to reward with government contracts, U.S. Attorney […]

California Postmaster Arrested for stealing more than $23,000 from Rural Post Office

SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they have arrested a postmaster for stealing more than $23,000 from a rural post office in Northern California. The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said 38-year-old Kristina Michelle Morris was arrested Thursday for felony embezzlement, theft of cash and theft of money orders. She was released on $10,000 […]