{"id":18586,"date":"2017-03-09T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:57:20","slug":"new-jersey-postal-supervisor-charged-with-theft-of-government-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/new-jersey-postal-supervisor-charged-with-theft-of-government-property\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Postal Supervisor Charged With Theft Of Government Property"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAMDEN, N.J. \u2013 A Delran, New Jersey, man will appear in federal court today to face charges that he abused his position as a U.S. Postal Service supervisor to steal cash deposits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.<\/p>\n

Amar D. Patel, 35, is charged by complaint with knowingly embezzling, stealing, purloining, and converting to his use U.S. Postal Service funds exceeding $1,000. He is scheduled to appear this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ann Marie Donio in Camden federal court.<\/p>\n

According to the complaint:<\/p>\n

In July 2016, the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General started investigating shortages in cash deposits reported by the Riverside, New Jersey, Delanco, New Jersey, and Delran post offices. Patel \u2013 who was a supervisor at those three offices \u2013 had access to deposit bags containing cash acquired during retail operations.<\/p>\n

As part of the investigation, agents installed covert surveillance cameras inside the Riverside post office. On Jan. 14, 2017, one of the surveillance cameras captured images of Patel tearing open a sealed deposit bag, removing cash deposits, and placing the funds into his pocket. According to U.S. Postal Service financial records and bank deposit records, the Riverside office\u2019s deposit was short $1,650 on Jan. 14, 2017.\"\"<\/p>\n

Based on this and other information, Patel is accused of stealing $15,700 in U.S. Postal Service funds on 12 separate occasions from Feb. 20, 2016, through Jan. 14, 2017.<\/p>\n

The embezzlement charge carries a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General, under the direction of\u00a0<\/span>Monica Weyler, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge, Philadelphia,\u00a0<\/span>Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gabriel J. Vidoni of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office Criminal Division in Camden.<\/p>\n

The charge and allegations contained in the complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAMDEN, N.J. \u2013 A Delran, New Jersey, man will appear in federal court today to face charges that he abused his position as a U.S. Postal Service supervisor to steal cash deposits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Amar D. Patel, 35, is charged by complaint with knowingly embezzling, stealing, purloining, and converting to his […]<\/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-18586","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\/18586","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=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18587,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18587"}],"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=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}