{"id":39832,"date":"2026-07-19T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39832"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:02:10","slug":"former-oklahoma-nalc-treasurer-branch-1491-charged-with-one-count-of-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/19\/former-oklahoma-nalc-treasurer-branch-1491-charged-with-one-count-of-embezzlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oklahoma NALC Treasurer, Branch 1491, Charged with One Count of Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 9, 2026, in the District Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Suzanne Vela, former Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1491 (located in Norman, Okla.), was charged with one count of embezzlement, in violation of 21 O.S. 1451 (B)(4). The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DOL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-26748\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DOL-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DOL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DOL-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 9, 2026, in the District Court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Suzanne Vela, former Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1491 (located in Norman, Okla.), was charged with one count of embezzlement, in violation of 21 O.S. 1451 (B)(4). The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39832","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=39832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39833,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39832\/revisions\/39833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}