Richard Klaffka posed as a disabled veteran and postal worker for more than decade. His act, which included a wheelchair he didn’t need, was good enough to reap $1.2 million in fraudulent disability benefits. Klaffka, 59, of Holland, is now going to prison. “It was like a way of life,” U.S. District Judge Richard J. […]
Defendant transferred to ICE custody for deportation proceedings BOSTON – 11/30/17 – A Togolese national charged with mail fraud pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston. Roukayatou Damerogo, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of mail before U.S. District Court Judge Dennis F. Saylor IV, who then sentenced Damerogo […]
11/17/17 – Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that YVONNE WILSON, age 37, of Kenner, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with embezzlement of mail matter by a postal service employee. According to the Bill of Information, it is alleged that on or about July 14, 2016, WILSON, while being an employee of the […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – 11/09/17 – A Wood County man who stole mail in November 2016 pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Richard Thomas Morris, Jr., 38, of Washington, entered his guilty plea to possession of stolen mail. Morris was a relief driver for a United States Postal Service contractor whose job it […]
On October 30, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne Division, Fenna F. Saylors, former Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 378 (located in Marion, Ind.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay $6,050 in restitution and a $100 […]
11/07/17 – Two former U.S. Postal employees were sentenced to prison for stealing packages containing marijuana from the U.S. mail and then selling the drugs, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman. Rabih Kairouz, 29, of Akron, was sentenced to 37 months in prison. Scott Gay, Jr., 33, of Canton, was sentenced to six months incarceration […]
West Palm Beach Man Sentenced for Conspiring with his brother, a United States Postal Service Letter Carrier, to Commit Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft 11/03/17 – A West Palm Beach man was sentenced to 54 months in prison for conspiring with his brother, a United States Postal Service letter carrier, to commit access device […]
BOSTON – 11/03/17 – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was arrested today and charged in connection with embezzling over $22,000. Dennis Reis, 37, of Taunton, was charged in an indictment with one count of embezzlement and theft of public money, property or records. Reis will appear in federal court in Boston this afternoon. […]
Postal Employee Charged with Opening Mail PITTSBURGH – 11/02/17 – A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Opening of Mail by Postal Employee, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The two-count indictment named Ronald Wojcik, 38, of Tarentum, PA, as […]
Texas man pleads guilty to using postal service fuel cards for private vehicle LAKE CHARLES, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former Lake Charles post office employee pleaded guilty last week to using U.S. Postal Service fuel cards for his personal vehicle. Shawn Bell Jr., 21, of Port Arthur, Texas, pleaded guilty […]