Contract Truck Driver Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over $300,000 Via USPS Fuel Cards

June 7, 2011 CAMDEN, N.J. – A supervisor of truck drivers formerly employed by two related trucking companies in Ocean, N.J., admitted today to stealing over $300,000 from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) through unauthorized use of fuel cards given to the companies in connection with a contract to haul U.S. mail, U.S. Attorney Paul […]

Missouri Postmaster Convicted In $3.8 Million Bulk Mailings Fraud Scheme

MISSOURI DIRECT MAILER & POSTAL EMPLOYEES PREVIOUSLY PLED GUILTY June 6, 2011 – St. Louis, MO:  The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Teresa Tremusini, Festus  Postmaster, was convicted of two felony counts of Receipt of Illegal Gratuities.  The owner of SG Print & Mail and two Postal employees previously entered guilty pleas in the […]

Ohio Postal Employee indicted for mail theft

Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of Ohio Rural Carrier Associate indicted for mail theft June 2, 2011 – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Joni R. Smith, age 35, of Mogadore, Ohio, with theft of mail by a postal employee and unauthorized opening of mail by a postal […]

Hartford Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty in Identity and Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MANUEL QUILES, 41, of Wayland Street, Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday, June 1, before United States Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport to one count of embezzlement of mail by an employee of the United States Postal Service. According to court […]

Two Texas Letter Carriers Indicted For Falsifying OWCP Medical Travel Reimbursement

One Defendant Admits Receiving Nearly $175,000 by Submitting/False Fraudulent Mileage Claims DALLAS — Two former U.S. Postal Service letter carriers from the Dallas area have been indicted, in unrelated cases, on charges of stealing government funds with regard to the Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP) claims they filed, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks […]

Alabama Postal Union President Indicted for Embezzlement

Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of Alabama June 1, 2011 BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted a Huntsville man for embezzling from the America Postal Workers Union while he was president of a union local in Madison, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. The one-count indictment filed in U.S. […]

Former New Jersey Postal Union Officer Sentenced To Prison For Role In Embezzlement Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. – The former Secretary-Treasurer of a New Jersey Postal Workers union was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for conspiring to embezzle funds from the union’s operating account, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. John McGovern, 55, of Hawthorne, N.J., previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a […]

Chiropactor Who Treated Mostly Postal Workers Gets Prison For OWCP Fraud

And Defrauding Other Insurers Out $1.4 MILLION The following is a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office,Northern District of Illinois CHICAGO — A chiropractor who owned and operated a clinic in Maywood for more than a decade was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to healthcare […]

Two men arrested in murder of Florida letter carrier

Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and James K. Loftus, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department, announce the arrest of Pikerson Mentor, 29, and Saubnet Dwayne Politasse, 23, both of Miami, in connection with the December 6, 2010 murder of U.S. Postal […]

Former APWU National Officer Gets Prison For Theft Of Union Funds

 Sanders recently ran in the APWU National Election of Officers to get his old job back, but was unsuccessful.   The following is a press release from the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District, Texas (HOUSTON) – Former American Postal Worker’s Union (APWU) officer has been sentenced to prison for stealing union funds, United States Attorney José […]