{"id":15279,"date":"2016-06-16T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:49:50","slug":"former-albuquerque-sales-and-service-associate-sentenced-to-probation-for-federal-theft-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/16\/former-albuquerque-sales-and-service-associate-sentenced-to-probation-for-federal-theft-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Albuquerque Sales and Service Associate Sentenced to Probation for Federal Theft Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 Gary J. Devine, 51, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to two years of probation for his conviction on a theft of government funds charge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Devine was charged in a misdemeanor information filed in Oct. 2015, with theft of government funds.\u00a0 The charge arose from Devine allegedly keeping money belonging to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) for sales of USPS stamps.\u00a0 At the time, Devine committed the crime, he was employed as Sales and Service Associate at a U.S. Post Office in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Devine pled guilty on March 8, 2016, to a misdemeanor information charging him with theft of public money and admitted that from May 28, 2015 through May 31, 2015, in Bernalillo County, N.M., he intentionally stole money from the United States by selling USPS stamps to customers and keeping the money for himself rather than turning it in to the Post Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">This case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Mysliwiec.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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=\"349\" height=\"252\" 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: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 Gary J. Devine, 51, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to two years of probation for his conviction on a theft of government funds charge. Devine was charged in a misdemeanor information filed in Oct. 2015, with theft of government funds.\u00a0 The charge arose from Devine allegedly keeping money belonging [&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-15279","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\/15279","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=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions\/15280"}],"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=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}