Glens Falls NY Letter Carrier Admits Stealing Mail

Press Release from the US Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of New York UNITED STATES ATTORNEY RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN announced that DOUGLAS HARRINGTON pled guilty today before Senior United States District Court Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, in Albany, New York, to the felony offense of theft of mail matter by a postal employee. Sentencing for HARRINGTON […]

Maryland Postal Worker Sentenced To Prison For Theft of Mail

Baltimore, Maryland – (August 30, 2011) U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, sentenced James M. Russell, age 49, of Brandywine, Maryland, today to six months in prison, followed by six months of home detention and two years of supervised release, for theft of mail while he was employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Judge Blake […]

Missouri Postmaster Gets Prison In $3.8 Million Bulk Mailings Fraud Scheme

The is a press release  from the United Stes Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri St. Louis, MO – ( August 26, 2011) The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Teresa Tremusini, Festus  Postmaster, was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release.  In June she was convicted […]

Former Kansas Postmaster Indicted On Embezzlement Charges

The former postmaster of the Whiting, Kan., post office has been indicted on charges of embezzling government funds, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Thursday. Terri L. Morris, 49, Holton, Kan., is charged with two counts of making a false writing and one count of embezzling public funds. The indictment alleges the crimes took place at […]

USPS Executive Pleads Guilty To Bribery

 Offered Contracts in Return For Payments The U.S. Attorney’s office  for the District of Columbia issued the following press  release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2011  —Ron Middlebrooks, a former senior executive with the U.S. Postal Service, pled guilty today to a bribery charge stemming from his acceptance of $15,000 in cash from a businessman he promised […]

Pennsylvania Mail Contractor Charged With Making False Claims Mileage Against USPS

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of making false claims against the United States Postal Service, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The seven-count indictment named David Cooper, 62, as the sole defendant. According to the indictment, from on […]

NJ Man Gets Prison for stealing from mailboxes and postal trucks

CAMDEN, N.J. – Nathaniel Johnson was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for stealing government funds in the form of checks from mailboxes and mail trucks in connection with an identity theft scheme that he ran with his wife, Lakisha Scanes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Johnson, 43, of Camden, previously pleaded guilty […]

Pennsylvania Mail Carrier charged with failing to deliver mail

Mail Carrier allegedly “voluntarily quit and deserted those commercial circulars” on several occasions before delivering them to postal patrons July 8, 2011 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced the filing today in U.S. District Court in Williamsport of an Information against a former employee of the United States […]

Owner Of Houston Pre-sort Company Gets 14 Years For Stealing Millions From USPS

HOUSTON – Neal Lim, former owner of one of the largest mail presort operations in the Houston area has been sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and possessing and using counterfeit postage meter machines to affix counterfeit postage in his mass mailing businesses, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno and United States […]

Man Indicted on Charge Of Biting US Postal Inspector

ROCHESTER, N.Y.– (June 24, 2011) U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Mark Joseph Rossel, 52, of Rush, New York, on a charge of assaulting a federal officer and inflicting bodily injury. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or […]