NALC News – The Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive, which took place on Saturday, May 11, collected 75.7 million pounds of food—third-highest total in the drive’s 27 years. San Juan, Puerto Rico Branch 869 collected about 2.3 million pounds of food, leading all branches nationwide in the amount of food collected. The food donations stay in […]
Stephanie Hayes-Bostic has never taken a singing lesson in her life, but that didn’t stop her from stunning the crowd when she performed a song to celebrate her last day at work at the postal service. “At last, my postal career has come and gone. My 9 to 5, it’s over. So you can call […]
DOJ – 7/19/19 – A grand jury in West Palm Beach today returned an indictment charging a man with mail theft in Lantana, Florida. Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Sean Scheller, Chief of Police for the Town of Lantana, Florida, and Lesley Allison, Acting Inspector in Charge, United States […]
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — A suspected package thief could face federal charges in connection to hundreds of cases of mail fraud across the country. The case started in April of 2019, when Sandy Springs Police began investigating a fraudulent credit card charge. The victim, located in Michigan, told police someone purchased a $59,000 painting. Three […]
Sametha Mitchell-Kelly, a Kinston, NC, letter carrier and a member of a joint USPS-NALC safety task force, gives bottled water and safety materials to Ronnie Griffin, a Morehead City, NC, letter carrier. USPS News Link – 7/18/19 – The Postal Service is working to protect employees this summer. Across the nation, managers and supervisors are […]
DOL – On June 19, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Kelly Carter, former President of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 560 (located in Benton Harbor, Mich.), was charged in a one-count indictment for embezzling $7,130 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SYBIL F. BUTLER, 57, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to three years of probation for stealing federal annuity benefits. Judge Underhill also ordered Butler to pay full restitution and […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – NEWARK, N.J. – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier was convicted today of conspiring to defraud the United States by getting paid to assist a drug dealer in receiving packages of marijuana through the mails, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Fred Rivers, 47, of Newark, was convicted of one count […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Unterria Rogers, a 33 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced to 60 months in prison as a result of his conviction for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On March […]
Doctor And Three Others In Bergen County Charged In $10 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme Allegedly Paid and Received Kickbacks in Connection with Medically Unnecessary Prescriptions for Pain Creams DOJ – 7/16/19 – NEWARK, N.J. – A doctor and three people associated with a pharmacy were charged today with their respective roles in defrauding the […]