Two of the Co-Conspirators Are Former U.S. Postal Service Employees PHILADELPHIA – 10/19/26 – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that four area men have been sentenced to prison by United States District Judge Joshua D. Wolson for conspiring to steal and sell thousands of U.S. Treasury checks. The defendants were charged by superseding indictment […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — 10/14/26 – A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Kyree Hall, 26, of Sacramento, charging him with theft of government property, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. The indictment was unsealed following his arrest today. According to court documents, Hall was an employee of the U.S. Postal Service in 2025, and worked […]
OIG – 10/14/26 – The Coast Guard Investigative Service and Homeland Security Investigations had been following an alleged fraud ring in the Los Angeles, CA, area for some time. The allegations ranged from counterfeit documents to stolen checks, to stolen debit cards from the state’s unemployment insurance program, as well as other forms of fraud. […]
Tampa, Florida – 10/13/26 – Stanley Richardson Joseph (28, Brooklyn, NY), Kallie Nicole Valerie Halliday (26, Brooklyn, NY), and Kristy Marie Bochecchio (47, Tampa) have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy, theft of government money or property, and aggravated identity theft. If convicted on all counts, each faces a maximum penalty of 10 […]
HAMMOND – 10/8/26 – Zachary Nelson, 27 years old, of Lowell, Indiana, was sentenced to probation by United States District Court Judge Gretchen Lund after pleading guilty to felony delay of mail, announced United States Attorney Adam L. Mildred. “Zachary Nelson, a Rural Mail Carrier for the United States Postal Service, on multiple occasions in […]
Chicago – 10/9/26 – Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that a Chicago woman who stole personal checks and deposited them into her bank account while employed by the U.S. Postal Service pleaded guilty to theft. Teneshya Harris, 37, pleaded guilty in Cook County Circuit Court to one count of theft by deception between $500 and […]
Orlando, Florida – 10/9/26 – Khayyam Arif Oglu Farajov (40), an Azerbaijani national, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain payments from the United States Postal Service (USPS). Farajov faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison […]
U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking public assistance to reach nearly 6,500 victims INDIANAPOLIS- 10/9/26 – A former United States Postal Service letter carrier, Destinee Ruffin, 29, of Indianapolis, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $34 million conspiracy to commit bank fraud by stealing checks from the U.S. Mail. Ruffin is scheduled to be sentenced on October […]
10/7/26 – United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, announced today that MICHAEL EDWARDS, a/k/a “Only1Giela,” was sentenced today to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl for orchestrating an expansive scheme to steal and fraudulently alter millions of dollars in checks before depositing the checks […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. – 10/5/26 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today Carwin D. Lidge, 27, of Amherst, NY, Jenny B. Alemany, 40, and Richard Law, 29, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit mail theft, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a […]