{"id":7463,"date":"2014-04-30T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2014-04-30T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:32:55","slug":"union-criminal-enforcement-actions-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/04\/30\/union-criminal-enforcement-actions-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Criminal Enforcement Actions April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Criminal Enforcement Actions 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

On April 23, 2014<\/strong>, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Anthony Davis, President of National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) Local 314 (located in St. Louis, Mo.), was indicted on one count of embezzling $40,659 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c).\u00a0 The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Denver-St. Louis District Office. \"4-Postal-Fraud-Theft-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 20, 2014<\/strong>, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, Harold Ray, former secretary for National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 469 and the Alabama State Association, located in Mobile, Ala. and Birmingham, Ala., respectively, pled guilty to count one of the indictment to embezzlement of union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c).\u00a0 On January 31, 2014, Ray was indicted in a two-count indictment with one count of embezzling $38,565 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c), and one count of access device fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1029(a)(2).\u00a0 The plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office.<\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE<\/strong>
\nAn indictment<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

An information<\/strong> is a formal accusation of a crime by a government attorney rather than a Grand Jury.\u00a0 An information raises no inference of guilt. As in all criminal cases, each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

A charge<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Each count<\/strong> is a separate and distinct offense charged in an indictment or information.<\/p>\n

A guilty plea<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

A conviction<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

A sentence<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Criminal Enforcement Actions 2014 On April 23, 2014, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Anthony Davis, President of National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) Local 314 (located in St. Louis, Mo.), was indicted on one count of embezzling $40,659 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c).\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theftandfraud","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}