Video: Virginia Beach Mail Mess

Video: Virginia Beach Mail Mess

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Several residents of a Virginia Beach neighborhood say days go by with no mail at all and packages show up days late. “It’s kind of become the neighborhood joke like, ‘Did you get mail today?”’ Kidding aside, Shannon Dodd says mail deliveries are a surprising treat lately, instead of routine. “Recently, […]

Video: USPS carrier knocks down mailbox, customer wants answers

Video: USPS carrier knocks down mailbox, customer wants answers

KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette A Lafayette, LA man wants answers after a neighbor captured video of a mail truck knocking down his mailbox. Allen Cornett says it happened on December 19. He was told the driver was a contracted postal service employee for the holidays. Cornett said he filed a claim and has submitted estimates. […]

Southern California Residents Plead Guilty to Hiding Millions of Dollars in Secret Foreign Bank Accounts

Southern California Residents Plead Guilty to Hiding Millions of Dollars in Secret Foreign Bank Accounts

Failed to Report Swiss and Israeli Accounts Held for Over a Decade 1/18/17 – Three Orange County, California residents pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Dan Farhad Kalili, 55, […]

Vice Lords Associate Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Obtaining and Disclosing Private Hospital Information of Victims and Their Families

Vice Lords Associate Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Obtaining and Disclosing Private Hospital Information of Victims and Their Families

1/18/17 – An associate of the Vice Lords street gang was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for witness tampering by obtaining and disclosing the private health information of Vice Lords shooting victims and victims’ family members to a member of the gang. Acting Assistant Attorney General David Bitkower of the Justice Department’s Criminal […]

Video: Mail Carrier Beaten During Attempted Robbery In The Bronx

Video: Mail Carrier Beaten During Attempted Robbery In The Bronx

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A United States Postal Service worker was delivering mail inside a Bronx apartment building when he was attacked during an attempted robbery. Four people approached the 26-year-old mailman and demanded money from him inside 814 Tilden St. around 9 a.m. on Jan. 6, according to police. They broke the victim’s nose before fleeing […]

Video: $11,000 in Checks Stolen From USPS Mailbox in East Harlem

Video: $11,000 in Checks Stolen From USPS Mailbox in East Harlem

EAST HARLEM — An on-going series of check thefts claimed yet another victim, with $11,000 in bill payments pilfered from a local mailbox, the NYPD said. Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, a social services organization at 2265 3rd Ave., placed several checks to pay vendors in a nearby mailbox between Oct. 31 and Dec. 20, police said. But […]

GAO ISSUES FIRST ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S FISCAL HEALTH

GAO ISSUES FIRST ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S FISCAL HEALTH

Washington, D.C. (January 17, 2017) – Beginning an effort to examine the nation’s fiscal heath at the start of each year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued its first annual outlook on the nation’s fiscal future. The work warns of mounting debt and other challenges, urges prompt action to address those challenges, and […]

Wife of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Charged With Aiding and Abetting Her Husband and Obstruction of Justice

Wife of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Charged With Aiding and Abetting Her Husband and Obstruction of Justice

Noor Salman, 30, formerly of Fort Pierce, Florida, was charged by indictment with aiding and abetting Omar Mateen’s attempted provision and provision of material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and obstruction of justice. If convicted on all counts, Salman faces a maximum penalty of […]

Teen’s Prison Murder Wasn’t the First, His Parents Say

Teen’s Prison Murder Wasn’t the First, His Parents Say

BATON ROUGE, La. (Courthouse News) – 1/17/17 – A slightly built 17-year-old boy with no charges filed against him was strangled to death in the “violent, racist, drug-infested” East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, his parents say in a federal lawsuit. Tyrin Colbert was murdered by his cellmate on Feb. 18, 2016, his parents say in their Jan. 12 […]