{"id":852,"date":"2010-04-22T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=852"},"modified":"2010-04-22T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:26:22","slug":"american-postal-workers-union-officer-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/04\/22\/american-postal-workers-union-officer-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION OFFICER CHARGED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/doj.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-853\" title=\"doj\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/doj-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Dept. of Justice\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/doj-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/doj-266x266.gif 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMERICAN POSTAL WORKER\u2019S UNION (APWU) OFFICER CHARGED<br \/>\nWITH EMBEZZLEMENT OF UNION FUNDS AND WIRE FRAUD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(HOUSTON) \u2013 The former Southern Region Coordinator of the American Postal Worker\u2019s Union (APWU) has been charged with embezzlement of union funds and wire fraud, United States Attorney Jos\u00e9 Angel Moreno announced today. The two count indictment was returned on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie L. Sanders, 46, of Houston, Texas, who held various offices with the APWU between 1992 and 2006 including the office of Southern Region Coordinator, surrendered to federal authorities this morning and is expected to make his initial appearance before a U. S. Magistrate Judge this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, the American Postal Worker\u2019s Union (APWU) is a national labor organization based in Washington, D.C. serving 262,000 mail service employees with five regional offices. The office for the Southern Region is located in Houston, Texas. Sanders served as the APWU Southern Region Coordinator from Feb. 4, 2004 through October 2006 and supervised a trusteeship of APWU Local 83 in New Orleans from December 2005 to March 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges that Sanders embezzled more than $10,000 in union funds between July 2003 and through May 2006 by creating and submitting more than 20 false hotel receipts to the APWU national headquarters for reimbursement. The allegedly false reimbursement claims submitted by Sanders were paid by the APWU via wire transfer of funds and totaled approximately $13,145.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is currently employed as a postal clerk in downtown Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN POSTAL WORKER\u2019S UNION (APWU) OFFICER CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT OF UNION FUNDS AND WIRE FRAUD (HOUSTON) \u2013 The former Southern Region Coordinator of the American Postal Worker\u2019s Union (APWU) has been charged with embezzlement of union funds and wire fraud, United States Attorney Jos\u00e9 Angel Moreno announced today. The two count indictment was returned on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}