Tax Fraud Is Huge These Days

Tax Fraud Is Huge These Days

Tax fraud by federal, former federal, and postal, employees seems to be an easy and quick way to make money, and get prison time, these days. The couple outlined in the Justice Department article below took away BIG cash from their scheme…now they’re BIG time for their actions. Former Federal Employees Sentenced To Prison For […]

Alabama Letter Carrier Involved In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme

Alabama Letter Carrier Involved In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme

July 29, 2014 Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Identity Theft Scheme Using Prisoner Names and Corrupt U.S. Postal Service Employee Gregory Slaton pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to file false claims for his involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund (SIRF) scheme, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of […]

West Virginia PMR Admits Taking Over $2000

West Virginia PMR Admits Taking Over $2000

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY NORTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA Brenda Carmody, age 49, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, entered a plea of guilty to misappropriation of postal funds between August of 2013 and January of 2014. Carmody admitting to taking $1,551.91 from the stamp drawer and $480 from post office box rentals from […]

Former President of APWU Local 171 Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Former President of APWU Local 171 Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

On May 7, 2014, in Circuit Court for the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, Eric Barnett, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 171 (located in Portsmouth, Va.), pled guilty to one count of embezzlement of $200 or more, in violation of 18.2-111 of the Code of Virginia.  The plea follows an investigation by […]

Seven USPS Employees Charged With Fraudulently Collecting More Than $110,000 in Unemployment Compensation Benefits

Seven USPS Employees Charged With Fraudulently Collecting More Than $110,000 in Unemployment Compensation Benefits

Seven U.S. Postal Service employees were arrested today and charged with illegally collecting more than $110,000 in Unemployment Compensation benefits. The arrests are the result of a joint investigation conducted by the Unemployment Compensation Fraud Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, and the […]

Bronx postal worker lifted weights, boxed while getting $400K in benefits for bogus carpal-tunnel syndrome

Bronx postal worker lifted weights, boxed while getting $400K in benefits for bogus carpal-tunnel syndrome

May 6, 2014 Federal Employees Exaggerated Alleged Injuries Incurred On the Job and, in Some Cases, Failed to Disclose Other Sources of Income Earned While Collecting Federal Disability Payments Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rafael A. Medina, the Special Agent-in-Charge of United States Postal Service, Office of […]

Union Criminal Enforcement Actions April 2014

Union Criminal Enforcement Actions April 2014

Criminal Enforcement Actions 2014 On April 23, 2014, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Anthony Davis, President of National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) Local 314 (located in St. Louis, Mo.), was indicted on one count of embezzling $40,659 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c).  The […]