{"id":12375,"date":"2015-09-15T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:29:31","slug":"video-pittsburgh-postmaster-charged-with-intimidating-subordinate-to-cover-up-illegal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/15\/video-pittsburgh-postmaster-charged-with-intimidating-subordinate-to-cover-up-illegal-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Pittsburgh postmaster charged with intimidating subordinate to cover up illegal activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 15, 2015<\/p>\n

By Jonathan D. Silver \/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/h6>\n

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Pittsburgh’s postmaster has been charged with intimidating a subordinate in an effort to cover up his illegal opening of express mail packages, some of which contained drugs, at the East Liberty station over the past year, according to a criminal complaint made public today.<\/p>\n

Daniel P. Davis, 50, of Canonsburg, was charged by the Allegheny County district attorney’s office with intimidation of witnesses or victims, criminal coercion and official oppression.<\/p>\n

The charges relate to one of those employees, identified as Mavin Parker, the U.S. Postal Service’s manager of customer service in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Detectives wrote in an affidavit that Mr. Davis threatened several subordinates \u2014\u00a0telling one, Donna Clay, a customer service supervisor in the Hazelwood office, that he would kill her \u2014\u00a0who had become aware that he was opening express mail packages at locations throughout Allegheny County. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n