{"id":32819,"date":"2022-10-13T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=32819"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:12:28","slug":"wisconsin-postal-employee-charged-with-misappropriating-u-s-postal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2022\/10\/13\/wisconsin-postal-employee-charged-with-misappropriating-u-s-postal-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Postal Employee Charged with Misappropriating U.S. Postal Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">10\/11\/22 &#8211; Megan A. Torrez, 45, Alma, Wisconsin, is charged with 2 counts of misappropriating postal funds.\u00a0 The indictment alleges that on November 30 and December 27, 2021, while an employee of the U.S. Postal Service, Torrez converted to her own use more than $1,000 in U.S. Postal money orders.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If convicted, Torrez faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count.\u00a0 The charges against her are the result of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Anderson is handling the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Postal-Crime-495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29925\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Postal-Crime-495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Postal-Crime-495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Postal-Crime-495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/11\/22 &#8211; Megan A. Torrez, 45, Alma, Wisconsin, is charged with 2 counts of misappropriating postal funds.\u00a0 The indictment alleges that on November 30 and December 27, 2021, while an employee of the U.S. Postal Service, Torrez converted to her own use more than $1,000 in U.S. Postal money orders. If convicted, Torrez faces a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819","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=32819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32820,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32819\/revisions\/32820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}