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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OAKLAND, Calif. – Emmanuel Odion Esezobor was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of one count of theft of public money and seven counts of passing counterfeit U.S. obligations, United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Agent in Charge Nichole Cooper of the Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s Pacific Area Field Office, and Special Agent […]
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces that Victor Manual Pena (42, Bronx, New York) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft or receipt of stolen mail. Pena faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. In addition, Carmelo Rosado, Jr. (40, Orlando) has signed a plea agreement, whereby […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former postal employee was charged in federal court today with stealing hundreds of Netflix movies, gift cards and other mail. Felipe S. Lara, 35, of Blue Springs, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and was […]
BOSTON – Two United States Postal Service employees, along with two others, were indicted on drug trafficking charges. GERARD HARRINGTON, 48, of Stoneham; JOHN THIBEDEAU, 48, of Waltham; SEAN WILLIAMSON, 41, of Peabody; and WILLIAM ZULUAGA, 57, of East Boston, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of […]
BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today returned separate indictments charging two U.S. Postal Service employees with mail related violations, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Postal Service Office of Inspector General Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kenny Smith. The indictments filed in U.S. District Court charge the two Postal Service employees with delaying […]
Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey Camden, N.J. A Flanders, N.J., woman admitted today to embezzling $69,850 from the U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Thea Sisler, 31, pleaded guilty today to an Information charging her with intentionally misappropriating funds from the U.S. Postal Service while working […]