{"id":10031,"date":"2015-02-10T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:25:15","slug":"conviction-of-new-orleans-postal-worker-for-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/10\/conviction-of-new-orleans-postal-worker-for-tax-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Conviction of New Orleans Postal Worker for Tax Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

AG’s Office Obtains Conviction of New Orleans Postal Worker for Tax Fraud<\/h3>\n

As a result of a joint tax fraud investigation conducted by the Attorney General\u2019s Office and the Louisiana Department of Revenue, a New Orleans woman pleaded guilty on Friday in Baton Rouge to a violation of Louisiana Revised Statute 14:132, felony injuring public records, in order to defraud the state out of more than $16,000, announced Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. \"LA<\/a><\/p>\n

25-year-old Charnell Haymond, of 6921 Bunker Hill Road, was charged in April, 2014 with stealing personal information while employed by the U.S. Postal Service and then fraudulently filing a state tax return to steal over $16,000 from Louisiana. 19th Judicial District Court Judge Louis Daniel sentenced Haymond to five years in prison, which was suspended, and placed her on three years of supervised probation with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Conditions of her probation include paying the state $16,180 in restitution and 50 hours of community service.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General\u2019s Office and the Louisiana Department of Revenue are working together more closely than ever since the two agencies started a joint tax fraud fighting initiative during March, 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy office fights fraud perpetrated on Louisiana and its citizens every day,\u201d said Attorney General Caldwell. \u201cWhether it\u2019s tax fraud, Medicaid fraud, insurance fraud, or other crimes and deceptive acts, my staff at the Attorney General\u2019s Office takes aggressive action to protect the interests of Louisiana and its citizens in both the criminal and civil arenas.\u201d Caldwell added, \u201cWe are very pleased to be working with Secretary Barfield and his staff at the Louisiana Department of Revenue to bring these tax cheats to justice and recover the funds Louisiana is rightfully due.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case should serve as a strong reminder that fraudulent tax activities will not be tolerated,\u201d said Secretary of Revenue Tim Barfield. \u201cOur methods for detecting fraud are improving tremendously as we continue to implement more criminal investigation techniques, and our partnership with the Attorney General\u2019s Office indicates our overall commitment to fighting tax fraud and holding citizens accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AG’s Office Obtains Conviction of New Orleans Postal Worker for Tax Fraud As a result of a joint tax fraud investigation conducted by the Attorney General\u2019s Office and the Louisiana Department of Revenue, a New Orleans woman pleaded guilty on Friday in Baton Rouge to a violation of Louisiana Revised Statute 14:132, felony injuring public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10033,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}