Statement by U.S. Office of Personnel Management On Postal Service’s Decision to Suspend FERS Annuity Contributions The US Postal Service is facing serious challenges. OPM is sympathetic to the situation in which the Postal Service finds itself, and we stand ready to help the Postal Service in whatever way we can, consistent with our legal […]
June 16, 2011 – Hammond, Indiana—The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following: Chopper Loughran, 29, of Lake Station, Indiana, was charged in an indictment with two counts of making false statements in connection with Federal Workers’ Compensation Benefits. Loughran was employed as a United States Postal Service Letter Carrier at the Glen Park, Indiana […]
June 15, 2011- CAMDEN, N.J. – Lord T. Beyah pleaded guilty today to assaulting a postal employee during the robbery of a post office in Mizpah, N.J., on July 14, 2010, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Beyah, 48, a/k/a “Chance Burgess,” pleaded guilty to an Information, which charged him with assaulting a postal employee […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A former president of a New Jersey postal workers union has been sentenced to five years’ probation, including a year of home confinement. Gary Weightman of Keansburg pleaded guilty in December 2008 to two counts of tax evasion. He was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark. He was also […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]