{"id":5193,"date":"2012-09-24T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T02:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T02:43:47","slug":"criminal-enforcement-actions-postal-union-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/09\/24\/criminal-enforcement-actions-postal-union-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Enforcement Actions &#8211; Postal Union Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Postal-Fraud-and-Theft.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5194\" title=\"Postal Fraud and Theft\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Postal-Fraud-and-Theft-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Criminal Enforcement Actions &#8211; Postal Union Officials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 16, 2012, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, Lanny F. Pauley, former Secretary-Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1412 (located in Garden City, Kans.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay $14,898.51 in restitution and a $100 assessment. On September 12, 2011, Pauley pled guilty to one count of embezzlement, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Kansas City Resident Investigator Office.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Pamela S. Hinzman, former Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1580 (located in Parkersburg, W.Va.), was sentenced to five years of probation and was ordered to pay $22,304.22 in restitution and a $100 special assessment. The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS Pittsburgh District Office.<\/p>\n<p>On July 10, 2012, in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona (Navajo County), Christina Carr, former Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 7008 (located in Show Low, Ariz.), pled guilty to one count of theft (Class 6 felony), in violation of the State of Arizona Statute 13-1802(A)(2). Carr pled guilty to embezzling $5,853.19 in union funds by misusing the union debit card and writing union checks for personal purposes. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Phoenix Resident Investigative Office.<\/p>\n<p>Remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An indictment is a formal accusation or charge based on a finding by a Grand Jury that it is likely that the person charged committed the criminal offense described in the indictment and is the means by which an accused person (defendant) is brought to trial. An indictment raises no inference of guilt. As in all criminal cases, each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/li>\n<li>An information is a formal accusation of a crime by a government attorney rather than a Grand Jury. An information raises no inference of guilt. As in all criminal cases, each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/li>\n<li>A charge is an accusation of criminal activity and raises no inference of guilt. As in all criminal cases, each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/li>\n<li>Each count is a separate and distinct offense charged in an indictment or information.<\/li>\n<li>A guilty plea is a defendant\u2019s admission to the court that he or she committed the offense charged and an agreement to waive the right to a trial.<\/li>\n<li>A conviction is a judgment based on a jury\u2019s verdict, judge\u2019s finding, or the defendant\u2019s admission that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged.<\/li>\n<li>A sentence is a judicial determination of the punishment to be imposed on an individual who has plead guilty or has been convicted by a jury or judge of a criminal offense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Dept. of Labor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Enforcement Actions &#8211; Postal Union Officials On July 16, 2012, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, Lanny F. Pauley, former Secretary-Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1412 (located in Garden City, Kans.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay $14,898.51 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theftandfraud","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193","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=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}