{"id":8963,"date":"2014-11-07T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8963"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:50:04","slug":"former-ny-letter-carrier-charged-with-obstructing-and-retarding-passage-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/07\/former-ny-letter-carrier-charged-with-obstructing-and-retarding-passage-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NY Letter Carrier Charged with Obstructing and Retarding Passage of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONEIDA COUNTY MAN CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING THE MAIL<\/p>\n<p>SYRACUSE, NEW YORK \u2013 United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announces that MICHAEL OLIVER, 34, of Waterville, New York, has been charged with two counts of obstructing the United States mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1701. The two-count Information filed by the United States Attorney\u2019s Office charges Mr. Oliver, a former letter carrier, with obstructing and retarding the passage of mail by opening mail addressed to others and retaining the contents of that mail. If convicted, Mr. Oliver faces up to six months in prison. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8129\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\" alt=\"dept-of-justice2\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service is ongoing. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael F. Perry.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney John G. Duncan at 315-448-0672.<\/p>\n<p>The charges and allegations announced today are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONEIDA COUNTY MAN CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING THE MAIL SYRACUSE, NEW YORK \u2013 United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announces that MICHAEL OLIVER, 34, of Waterville, New York, has been charged with two counts of obstructing the United States mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1701. The two-count Information filed by the United States Attorney\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963","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=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}