{"id":1217,"date":"2010-07-24T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-07-24T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:04:12","slug":"former-rutland-postal-clerk-charged-with-mail-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/07\/24\/former-rutland-postal-clerk-charged-with-mail-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rutland postal clerk charged with mail theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Postal-Fraud-and-Theft1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1218\" title=\"Postal Fraud and Theft\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Postal-Fraud-and-Theft1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Postal Fraud and Theft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators said Friday that a former postal clerk in the Rutland office has been indicted in the rash of mail thefts reported in the area earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury handed down a one-count indictment Thursday charging that Michelle Donahoe \u201cintentionally embezzled letters, mail and articles contained therein\u201d over a four-month period in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen people contacted the Rutland Herald in March saying they got letters from the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General telling them mail they sent was found in the possession of \u201csomeone other than your address.\u201d The reports frequently accompanied stories of missing greeting cards and holiday checks, though nobody described a missing check being cashed.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Medina, assistant special agent in charge of the Office of the Inspector General in New York City, confirmed Friday that the indictment was related to those letters, but said he could not give out any more information.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutlandherald.com\/article\/20100724\/NEWS01\/707249915\/1002\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\">Rutland Hearld<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal investigators said Friday that a former postal clerk in the Rutland office has been indicted in the rash of mail thefts reported in the area earlier this year. A federal grand jury handed down a one-count indictment Thursday charging that Michelle Donahoe \u201cintentionally embezzled letters, mail and articles contained therein\u201d over a four-month period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theftandfraud","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}