U.S. Postal Worker Indicted In Massive Scheme
A United States Postal Service employee and two other have been charged over a massive scheme involving stolen checks that have a value worth over $24 million.
The DOJ announced postal worker Nakedra Shannon and two other have been charged with “one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and five counts of theft of government property.”
The DOJ reported “According to allegations in the indictment, from March 2021 to July 2023, Shannon was employed by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as a mail processing clerk at a USPS processing and distribution center in Charlotte.”
The USPS was trusted by the US government to facilitate mail-in ballots across the country in the 2020 election but this latest bust just goes to show there are still some major flaws in the USPS system.
A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors say. https://t.co/nGFcfeIDgh
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Here’s what The Hill reported:
A U.S. postal service employee and two others have been charged over a scheme involving stolen checks worth more than $24 million, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.
Nakedra Shannon, 29, the postal worker, and Donnel Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, all of Charlotte, N.C., have been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and five counts of theft of government property.
Carter and Gardner have also been charged with seven counts of possession of stolen mail matter. Shannon has been charged with eight counts of theft of mail by a postal employee, the DOJ said.
“According to allegations in the indictment, from March 2021 to July 2023, Shannon was employed by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as a mail processing clerk at a USPS processing and distribution center in Charlotte,” the release said.
Shannon conspired with Gardner and Carter to steal incoming and outgoing checks from the mail, which they then sold to other individuals using the Telegram channel OG Glass House, the DOJ said.
Nakedra Shannon used her job as a mail processing clerk to steal checks from incoming and outgoing mail. https://t.co/BDSRHPuZAP
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Per NBC Washington:
A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors said.
The checks were sold through a Telegram channel, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina said in a statement.
The Postal Service worker, Nakedra Shannon, 29, worked at a processing center in Charlotte for around two years and stole the checks from April to July of this year, prosecutors said.
Two other people called co-conspirators by the U.S. attorney’s office, Donnell Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, have also been charged.
Carter ran the Telegram channel “OG Glass House” on which the checks were advertised for sale, according to an indictment. His name on the messaging app was “SW1PER.”
Charlotte Postal Worker Nakedra Shannon Stole $24 Million in Checks From the US Mail and Conspired With Two Other Suspects Donnell Gardner and Desiray Carter, Feds Say https://t.co/DKDVYZ3LRK
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