{"id":21068,"date":"2017-09-27T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21068"},"modified":"2017-09-27T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:05:45","slug":"des-moines-post-office-scam-led-to-postmasters-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/des-moines-post-office-scam-led-to-postmasters-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines post office scam led to postmaster&#8217;s firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DES MOINES REGISTER - Embed Player\" src=\"\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/videos\/embed\/106022218\/?fullsite=true\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired for failing to investigate the embezzlement of $160,000 over a period of two years at a south-side post office.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired early this year after she was accused of failing to investigate a long-running scam that cost the U.S. Postal Service more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>State unemployment records indicate Love, who was named Des Moines\u2019 35th postmaster in 2013, was fired from the federal agency in February.<\/p>\n<p>She was accused of failing to investigate concerns that a local employee of the Postal Service was embezzling money through a scheme that involved the use of money orders issued at a south-side post office between October 2014 and March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to state records, Love\u2019s superiors repeatedly alerted her to the suspicious nature of the money orders, but she failed to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Those records indicate the scheme, attributed to postal clerk Brenda Robinson, resulted in the loss of $160,000. However, the Postal Service&#8217;s Office of Inspector General has said the total loss is estimated to be $100,668.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, a federal grand jury indicted Robinson on charges of embezzlement and theft of government property. In May, Robinson agreed to enter a plea of guilty to one count of theft of government property. Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2017\/09\/26\/des-moines-post-office-scam-led-postmasters-firing\/688583001\/\">Des Moines Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6259\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Postal-Fraud-and-Theft.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired for failing to investigate the embezzlement of $160,000 over a period of two years at a south-side post office. Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired early this year after she was accused of failing to investigate a long-running scam that cost the U.S. Postal Service more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","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=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21069,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions\/21069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}