{"id":38285,"date":"2025-08-06T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38285"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:09:11","slug":"illinois-man-sentenced-to-41-months-in-prison-scheme-involved-large-business-checks-stolen-out-of-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/illinois-man-sentenced-to-41-months-in-prison-scheme-involved-large-business-checks-stolen-out-of-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Man Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison – scheme involved large business checks stolen out of the mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAMMOND \u2013 Yesterday, Kareim J. Coverson, 37 years old, of Calumet City, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Phillip P. Simon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor.<\/p>\n

Coverson was sentenced to 41 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $614,597.50 in restitution to the victims of the offense.<\/p>\n

According to documents in the case,\u00a0between approximately May 2019 and June 2020, Coverson participated in a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $3.3 million from the proceeds of large business checks stolen out of the mail.\u00a0 Coverson and his co-conspirators registered fictitious corporations with the Indiana and Illinois Secretaries of State, opened fraudulent corporate bank accounts, and deposited the stolen checks into the fraudulent accounts.\u00a0 The actions of Coverson and his associates resulted in an unrecovered loss of over $1 million to the affected businesses and financial institutions.<\/p>\n

Coverson is the last of 10 defendants to be convicted and sentenced in this case and a related prosecution arising from the same scheme.\u00a0 \u00a0In April 2024, Coverson\u2019s brother, Oliver Coverson,\u00a0was sentenced to 96 months in prison<\/a>\u00a0for his role as the organizer of the scheme.\u00a0 Earlier this year, Defendant Scott Vue received a prison sentence of 51 months for his role in the offense, which included opening fraudulent bank accounts, depositing stolen checks, and recruiting additional participants to the conspiracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coverson brothers and their associates assembled a large criminal conspiracy that caused millions of dollars of harm to businesses and banks throughout the United States.\u00a0 These defendants stole from small and large businesses alike, disrupting the flow of commerce, and compromising the mail and financial systems on which everyday Americans rely to conduct their business,\u201d said Proctor.\u00a0 \u201cAs the court\u2019s sentences in this case demonstrate, such conduct is not tolerated in the Northern District of Indiana and will be met with serious consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation \u2013 Office of Inspector General, and the Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0 The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Zachary D. Heater.<\/p>\n

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HAMMOND \u2013 Yesterday, Kareim J. Coverson, 37 years old, of Calumet City, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Phillip P. Simon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor. Coverson was sentenced to 41 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38285","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\/38285","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=38285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38286,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38285\/revisions\/38286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}