Preliminary injunction bars USPS from enforcing a rule that would have made voter disenfranchisement “practically inevitable” 9/4/26 – A federal District Court today issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a rule that would have operationalized President Trump’s March 31 executive order restricting mail voting. Under the rule, […]
WASHINGTON — 9/4/26 – There has been a lot of misinformation and speculation about the Postal Service’s role in issuing a rule consistent with the policies set forth in Executive Order 14399, which concerns ballot mail for federal elections. We would like to set the record straight as to what the USPS is actually doing […]
Thursday, September 03, 2026 WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement on Postmaster David Steiner’s anticipated Friday visit to St. Louis. The photo-op by the Postmaster comes after months of failure to provide acceptable answers regarding his bonus payments and poor mail service in the state. “Missourians have suffered poor mail service […]
USPS 9/1/26 – We have received Senator Blumenthal’s letter and are carefully reviewing the concerns he and the whistleblower have raised. We appreciate the opportunity to address these questions and share additional information about the Postal Service’s work to support election officials and voters across the country. The United States Postal Service has spent months […]
On July 16, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, Kairik Strehlow, former Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1064 (located in Pierre, S.Dak.), was indicted for one count of embezzlement of union funds totaling $7,731, one count of filing a false union financial report, and […]
Washington, D.C. — 9/2/26 – Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Joe Morelle, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, requested that U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General Tammy Hull investigate the Postal Service’s dangerous, untested, and illegal ballot screening system created at President Trump’s […]
September 30, 2026 White House Fraud Task Force and OPM Find More Than $500 Million in Health Benefits Fraud -The results cover FEHB and Postal Service Health Benefits Programs – PEN The OIG’s Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering form America Plan, Volume 4 – PEN OPM Announces 2026 Federal Benefits Open Season as […]
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – 9/1/26 – Delos Thurston, age 28, of Clinton, New York, was sentenced on August 27, 2026, to 3 years’ probation for money order fraud. First Assistant United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Matthew M. Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area Field Office of the United States […]
ATLANTA – 8/31/25 – Shamarri Tache Brooks, a multi-convicted felon and rapper, was sentenced to federal prison for a fraud scheme involving thousands of checks stolen from the mail. “In addition to personally committing bank fraud, Brooks brazenly marketed and sold fraud tutorials and trafficked thousands of stolen checks worth millions of dollars. Thankfully, Brooks’s […]
LOS ANGELES – 8/28/26 – An aspiring rapper is among two defendants arrested – and a total of three defendants charged – in a 25-count federal grand jury indictment alleging they illegally possessed more than 50 stolen United States Treasury checks and hundreds of other checks belonging to individuals and businesses, totaling more than $8.1 […]