NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – 7/11/22 – DARIUS PATIN, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 7, 2022 before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. According to court documents, PATIN was employed by the United States Postal Service as a City Carrier and was assigned to work […]
LOS ANGELES – 7/11/22 – A former United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for scheming to steal more than $250,000 in unemployment insurance (UI) funds by making false claims of COVID-related job losses and for stealing UI debit cards intended for other people on his mail route. […]
ALBANY, NEW YORK – 7/8/22 – Eunice Ting, age 68, of Watervliet, New York, was arraigned today on an indictment charging theft of government property and making a false statement to obtain benefits from the United States Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. […]
ST. LOUIS – 6/30/22 – Two men from St. Louis County are facing federal charges accusing them of robbing two mail carriers at gunpoint on June 9. Roy Lee Jones, 19, and Xavier Sean Boyd, 18, of Jennings, were charged by complaint June 15 with two counts of robbery and two counts of theft of […]
6/30/22 – 11 individuals in the Northeast Ohio area were charged today in a five-count indictment for participating in a conspiracy that stole mail from the United States Postal Service (USPS), obtained checks within that stolen mail, and altered, forged and duplicated those checks for financial gain. Named in the indictment are Elijah S. Payne, […]
ST. LOUIS – 6/28/22 – U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Tuesday sentenced the former president of a local postal workers union to five years of probation and six months of house arrest for embezzling $80,000. Scott E. Rodgers, 51, was also ordered to repay the money. Rodgers embezzled a total of $80,756. From […]
On June 16, 2022, in the Trial Court of Massachusetts, Wareham District Court, Brian Simmons, former President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 18 (located in Middleboro, Mass.), was charged with one count of larceny over $250, in violation of Massachusetts G.L. c.266, §30(1). The charge follows an investigation by the OLMS Boston-Buffalo […]
6/24/22 – First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment charging Jaylen Harris, 19, of Beachwood, Ohio, Lavelle Jones, 18, of Warrenville Heights, Ohio, Devin Rice, 20, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Hakim Benjamin, 20, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with organizing and engaging in a conspiracy to […]
6/23/22 – The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) today announced settlement agreements reached with three federal employees who violated the Hatch Act. A summary of the violations and settlements is below: U.S. Postal Service (USPS): OSC filed a complaint for disciplinary action with the Merit Systems Protection Board charging a rural mail carrier in […]
Chicago — 6/23/22 – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced charges against six former or current U. S. Postal Service (Postal Service) employees as a result of a wide-ranging investigation by the Attorney General’s Task Force on Unemployment Insurance Benefits Fraud. Raoul alleges all six individuals fraudulently applied for a range of government loans and […]