Ohio Postal Worker Gets 5 Months Prison for Workers’ Comp Fraud

Press Release from the United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio (January 27, 2011) Former postal employee Norman J. Motko, Jr., 61, of Cleveland, was sentenced to five months imprisonment and ordered to pay $116,980.34 in restitution after previously pleading guilty to worker’s compensation fraud, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District […]

Pennsylvania Postal Worker Indicted On Charges Of Obstructing and Delaying Mail

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Grand Jury in Scranton has indicted Denise Miller, age 49, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, on two counts of intentionally obstructing and delaying mail coming into her possession as a postal employee in May 2010. According to United States Attorney Peter J. […]

Missouri Postmaster Gets Probation For Misappropriating Postal Funds

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former postmaster for the Republic, Mo., Post Office was sentenced in federal court today for misappropriating postal funds. Donna Rippee, 64, of Republic, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr to three years probation. The court […]

Vermont Postmaster Gets Probation In Mail Case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont postmaster has been fined $250 and put on probation for one year for obstructing the mail. Frank J. Strzelec, former officer in charge of the Center Rutland Post Office, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing the passage of mail. Federal prosecutors say that in late 2009, […]

Ohio Postal Employee Charged With Theft Of Mail

Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brenda Moore, age 48, of East Cleveland, Ohio, with theft of mail by a postal employee and unauthorized opening of mail by a postal employee. The indictment charges that on June […]

New York Postal Worker Gets Two Months For OWCP Fraud

Press Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of New York September 10, 2010 Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that JAMES IZYK, 49, of Oswego, New York was sentenced in federal court today in Syracuse, N.Y. by U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue, […]

Former Postal Employee Sentenced to 25 Months For Stealing Over $130,000 in Treasury Checks from Mail

Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia WASHINGTON – Shareen Wilson, 42, a former mail carrier with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”), was sentenced today to 25 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $134,416.27 in restitution for her role in a scheme to steal United States and District […]

California Postal Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Theft

Press Release from The U.S. Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s office for Eastern District of California: June 25, 2010 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that June Marie Casteel, 46, of Yuba City, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Edward G. Garcia to felony theft of U.S. Postal […]

Former Postal Employee Pleads Guilty To Theft, Agrees To Repay $134,416

WASHINGTON – Shareen Wilson, 42, a former mail carrier with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”), pleaded guilty this afternoon to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud,in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1349, and one count of Theft of Mail by U.S. PostalEmployee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1709, for […]

Mail Handler and Letter Carrier Charged With Mail Theft

Press Releases from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas : (HOUSTON) –  A mail handler for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been indicted for mail theft, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Johnny McCoy, 49, of Spring, Texas, has been charged in a one-count indictment with theft of mail […]