{"id":20042,"date":"2017-06-30T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T02:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20042"},"modified":"2017-06-30T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T02:16:44","slug":"new-york-postal-clerk-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-money-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/06\/30\/new-york-postal-clerk-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-money-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty to Stealing Money Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Money Orders<\/h3>\n<p>ALBANY, NEW YORK \u2013 6\/29\/17 &#8211; Naisha Wiley, age 34, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to stealing $10,000 worth of money orders from her employer, the United States Postal Service (USPS).<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian; Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area for the USPS, Office of the Inspector General; and Inspector in Charge Shelly A. Binkowski, United States Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division.<\/p>\n<p>In pleading guilty, Wiley admitted that while working part-time as a retail clerk in Post Offices in Montgomery County in 2016 and 2017, she stole USPS money orders with a total value of $10,000. She also admitted to stealing gift cards out of the mail.<\/p>\n<p>Wiley faces up to 10 years in prison, up to 3 years of post-imprisonment supervised release, and a maximum $250,000 fine when she is sentenced on October 10, 2017 by Senior United States Judge Thomas J. McAvoy. She may also be ordered to pay restitution to her victims. A defendant\u2019s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19149\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Justice1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This case was investigated by the USPS, Office of the Inspector General, and the United States Postal Inspection Service, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Money Orders ALBANY, NEW YORK \u2013 6\/29\/17 &#8211; Naisha Wiley, age 34, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to stealing $10,000 worth of money orders from her employer, the United States Postal Service (USPS). The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian; Eileen Neff, Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20042","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\/20042","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=20042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20043,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042\/revisions\/20043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}