{"id":39925,"date":"2026-08-05T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39925"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:27:35","slug":"baton-rouge-man-sentenced-to-48-months-in-federal-prison-for-conspiracy-to-commit-bank-fraud-and-theft-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/08\/05\/baton-rouge-man-sentenced-to-48-months-in-federal-prison-for-conspiracy-to-commit-bank-fraud-and-theft-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge Man Sentenced to 48 Months in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Theft of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

8\/3\/26 – Marvell Trevenski Jackson, Jr., age 26, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail, announced U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall. United States District Judge Brian A. Jackson further sentenced Jackson to three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment. Jackson was also ordered to pay $378,394.00 in restitution and to forfeit an additional $238,804.45 to the United States.<\/p>\n

According to admissions made as part of his guilty plea, Jackson conspired with others to defraud federally insured financial institutions, including Neighbor\u2019s Federal Credit Union (\u201cNFCU\u201d), Essential Federal Credit Union (\u201cEFCU\u201d), First Guarantee Bank and Trust (\u201cFGB\u201d), Navy Federal Credit Union (\u201cNavy FCU\u201d), and Regions Bank, among others. Jackson and his co-conspirators employed a variety of methods, including stealing or obtaining stolen mail to obtain personal and financial information of bank customers; altering or washing checks stolen from the mail; creating counterfeit checks using stolen bank account information; disseminating spam text messages designed to trick bank customers into revealing bank account information and login credentials; and using that confidential information to unlawfully access and transfer funds from victims\u2019 accounts.\u00a0Jackson also recruited other individuals, commonly known as \u201cmoney mules,\u201d either to open accounts or to use existing accounts to receive the fraud proceeds. Once the stolen funds were deposited into the accounts held by the money mules or other co-conspirators, these individuals withdrew the funds, keeping a portion for themselves and providing the majority to Jackson.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Jackson stole mail, including personal and business checks totaling at least $20,378 that had been placed for collection in the blue boxes at the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s office on Florida Street in Baton Rouge. These stolen checks and others, totaling over $270,000, were later located in a residence used by Jackson, along with the tools and supplies required for printing counterfeit checks.<\/p>\n

In total, Jackson and his conspirators obtained or sought to obtain over $500,000 by negotiating, and attempting to negotiate, altered or counterfeit checks using checks and other financial data obtained from stolen U.S. mail.<\/p>\n

Members of the conspiracy also engaged in \u201csmishing,\u201d short for \u201cSMS phishing,\u201d a cyber-attack technique whereby perpetrators use Short Message Service (\u201cSMS\u201d) or text messages purporting to be from reputable companies to induce victims to reveal personal information, such as usernames, passwords, or bank account numbers.\u00a0 Jackson and his co-conspirators executed the smishing scheme in East Baton Rouge Parish, Iberville Parish, Livingston Parish, and others, defrauding financial institutions, including NFCU, EFCU, FGB, and their customers of over $300,000.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall praised the work of the U.S. Postal Service, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office, Livingston Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Iberville Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office in investigating this matter. \u201cThis was a fantastic effort by a team of agencies that worked together along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul L. Pugliese. Marvel Jackson is a professional scammer and deserves every day of that sentence and more,\u201d Wall said.<\/p>\n

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8\/3\/26 – Marvell Trevenski Jackson, Jr., age 26, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail, announced U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall. United States District Judge Brian A. Jackson further sentenced Jackson to three years of supervised release […]<\/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-39925","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\/39925","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=39925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39927,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39925\/revisions\/39927"}],"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=39925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}