{"id":14968,"date":"2016-05-12T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14968"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:00:13","slug":"former-virginia-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/05\/12\/former-virginia-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Virginia Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 Tiffany Gordon, 32, of Norfolk, pleaded guilty today to theft of mail matter by a postal employee.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement of facts, Gordon had been employed by the U.S. Postal Service since December 2010 and worked as a mail processing clerk at the Norfolk Processing and Distribution Center.\u00a0 In September 2015, the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Office of the Inspector General received a complaint regarding missing mail that contained gift cards.\u00a0 The investigation revealed that Gordon, in the performance of her duties, had been stealing greeting cards that appeared to contain gift cards.\u00a0 Based on a search of her car, personal bag, and apartment, she was found to have stolen 295 pieces of mail containing more than $5,000 in gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 6, and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison when sentenced on September 8. \u00a0The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.<\/p>\n<p>Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and Paul L. Bowman, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Postal Service,\u00a0Office of Inspector General, made the announcement after the plea was accepted by Senior U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Stoker is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/vae\"><u>U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office<\/u><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the Eastern District of Virginia.\u00a0 Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaed.uscourts.gov\/\"><u>District Court<\/u><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the Eastern District of Virginia or on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pcl.uscourts.gov\/\"><u>PACER<\/u><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by searching for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Case No. 2:16cr53.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11175\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large.jpg\" alt=\"Dept of Justice Large\" width=\"459\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large.jpg 459w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 Tiffany Gordon, 32, of Norfolk, pleaded guilty today to theft of mail matter by a postal employee. According to a statement of facts, Gordon had been employed by the U.S. Postal Service since December 2010 and worked as a mail processing clerk at the Norfolk Processing and Distribution Center.\u00a0 In September 2015, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","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=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14969,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions\/14969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}