{"id":39455,"date":"2026-05-13T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39455"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:23:17","slug":"latanya-gadson-former-south-carolina-president-of-apwu-local-795-sentenced-to-five-years-probation-and-ordered-to-pay-11474-in-restitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/latanya-gadson-former-south-carolina-president-of-apwu-local-795-sentenced-to-five-years-probation-and-ordered-to-pay-11474-in-restitution\/","title":{"rendered":"LaTanya Gadson, former South Carolina President of APWU Local 795 sentenced to five year&#8217;s probation and ordered to pay $11,474 in restitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 16, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division, LaTanya Gadson, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 795 (located in Sumter, S.C.), was sentenced to five years of probation. Gadson was also ordered to pay $11,474 in restitution and a $25 assessment. On February 17, 2026, Gadson pleaded guilty to one count of willful falsification of union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Atlanta-Nashville District Office.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PEN&#8217;s previous coverage here.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-33705\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 16, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division, LaTanya Gadson, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 795 (located in Sumter, S.C.), was sentenced to five years of probation. Gadson was also ordered to pay $11,474 in restitution and a $25 assessment. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39455","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\/39455","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=39455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39458,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions\/39458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}