Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – June 29, 2016 – Today, JEFFREY LEMON, JR., 30, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve twelve months in a federal prison for theft of mail by a Postal Service employee, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. A […]
Jury Finds Delmar Woman Guilty of Workers’ Compensation Fraud ALBANY, NEW YORK – A jury today convicted Carol-Lisa Gutman, age 62, of Delmar, New York, of conducting a 15-year fraud scheme in which she received about $429,000 in federal disability benefits. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Eileen Neff, […]
BOSTON – A former U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining worker’s compensation for medical travel. Joseph Bouchard, 67, of Georgetown, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in obtaining federal employee compensation. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler scheduled sentencing for Sept. 14, 2016. […]
BOSTON – 6/21/16 – A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former postal worker Venecia McLaren, who stole and attempted to sell 23 sports trading cards through the Internet, including a LeBron James card valued at $25,000, to three years of probation. “It’s probably worth more now,” Judge Mark Wolf said about the James card, an apparent […]
PHOENIX – Postal inspectors and police are looking for a man they say is breaking into mailboxes all across the northwest Valley. Detectives tell ABC15 that he’s targeting cluster mailboxes across Bell Road in Glendale, Phoenix and Peoria. “There are personal things in there. There’s your bill, you send letters out and you send cards […]
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. Postal Service employee Doreen Allen, age 51, of Temple Hills, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $25,000 in worker’s compensation benefits. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent […]
ALBUQUERQUE – Gary J. Devine, 51, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to two years of probation for his conviction on a theft of government funds charge. Devine was charged in a misdemeanor information filed in Oct. 2015, with theft of government funds. The charge arose from Devine allegedly keeping money belonging […]
On June 8, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Jeffrey Velfling and John Crosby, former Chief Steward and Assistant Steward, respectively, of National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) Local 307 (located in Detroit, Mich.), each pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds in the amount of […]
On June 3, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Nereida Norris, former Clerk Craft Director of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 98 (located in Fort Worth, Tex.), was sentenced to nine months in prison, two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $25,956 in restitution, […]
On May 31, 2016, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Jesus Gonzales, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 300 (formerly 488-489; located in Lansing, Mich.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $6,726. On January 19, […]