On July 12, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Lonzell Moore, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1730 (located in Des Plaines, Ill.), pled guilty to one count of embezzling $18,857 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The guilty plea […]
On July 10, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Brenda Schaefer, former Treasurer of National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA) Local 39 (located in Chesterfield, Mich.), pled guilty to one count of willful failure to maintain union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(a). The guilty plea follows […]
Mondovi Man Charged with Stealing from U.S. Postal Service Anthony Q. Bell, 35, Mondovi, Wis., is charged with stealing funds from the U.S. Postal Service. The indictment alleges that from September through December 2015, he stole more than $5,000. At the time, Bell was an employee of the U.S. Postal Service at the Strum Post […]
9/11/17 – A federal jury sitting in Columbus, Georgia returned a guilty verdict against a U.S. postal worker for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney G. F. Peterman III for the Middle District of […]
BIRMINGHAM – 8/31/17 – A federal grand jury today indicted a former postal clerk for corrupting the sale of U.S. Postal Money Orders for her personal benefit, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer. An indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges MITESHIA SHONTA PRITCHETT, 33, of Bessemer, with two […]
Rusk County Man Charged with Theft from the Mail Kenneth Grunewald, 50, Bruce, Wis., is charged with two counts of stealing items from the U.S. Mail while an employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Winter, Wis. The indictment alleges that in January and May 2015, Grunewald stole two rebate cards from mail entrusted to […]
GREAT FALLS – 8/25/17 – The United States Attorney’s Office announced a federal court convicted Deborah Joy Durand of False Statements to Obtain Federal Employees’ Compensation Benefits, Wire Fraud, False Claims Relating to Workers’ Compensation Benefits, and Theft of Government Property. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris presided over the 3-day trial. At trial, the government […]
PEN – 8/25/17 – Michael Hearns, 55, of El Dorado, AR pleaded guilty Aug. 16 to conspiracy to defraud the United States, Kenneth Elser, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, said in a news release. Former El Dorado, AR USPS letter carrier Michael Hearns, 55, entered a guilty plea of conspiring, with others, […]
LAFAYETTE, La. – 8/22/17 – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a former Morgan City Post Office custodian pleaded guilty to stealing from U.S. mail. Jerome Guidry, 39, of Bayou Vista, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of theft of mail by a postal service […]
CAMDEN, N.J. – 8/16/17 – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee and three others were charged in connection with a $100,000 fraud involving numerous stolen blank money orders, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today. Marc Saunders, 39, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with stealing a money order imprinting machine and […]