Posted on 04/30/2016 2:20:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
Champagne delivered mail in Pennsauken. Prosecutors say he admitted stealing 72 U.S. Department of the Treasury checks totaling $443,000 and giving them to other people, who weren't named in court documents. Fishman says those people paid Champagne $50 per stolen check in 2014.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Sentencing is Aug. 3.
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I’ve been getting mine direct deposit for years. Do people still get actual checks in the mail?
Less than Cruz is taking from he poor unsuspecting supporters, but still a sizeable sum.
You can still get a tax refund check in the mail, yes. I do my taxes and at the end I am given the choice to efile, or send them in snail mail. When you get a refund, you can either have it direct deposited or sent to you in the mail.
15 years ago, we received our tax refund check in the mail and, as I was in the process of reorganizing my bookshelves .. at the time, I had over 2000 hardback books.. I absentmindedly placed the check inside of one of the books.
Two days later, when I realized what I had done, my late-wife and I had to tear it all apart again to find it.
And you know what they say ... when you lose something, you find it in the last place you look and, take it from me, 2000 books are a lot of last places ...
Since that time, it has been directly deposited.
The problem is that this carrier obviously had Champagne taste.
Who the hell gives a child a name like that?
Was his name Newman?
Government workers are genetically disposed to laziness and criminality.
Example: Government worker Teachers..
You would really, really have to be an absolute flaming moron to commit mail theft for $50 an instance.
The game was going along fine until someone who actually ‘EARNED’ the refund didn’t get his check and they raised hell.
“You would really, really have to be an absolute flaming moron to commit mail theft for $50 an instance.”
Not to mention losing a well-paid, cushy job.
bet he still has his affirmative action job. the article also says he sold the checks for fiddy bucks apiece
“Do people still get actual checks in the mail?”
Well, apparently not as many as thought they were going to.
I’ve been using e-file through tax cut for the last 3 or 4 years. I usually get my refund within 5 working days. By check it was usually 4-6 weeks.
Promoted out of the way to something even easier and probably better paying.
It’s been done in state gov jobs here and there.
Someone above the law that not only can't be prosecuted, but can't even be named?
Yep, and I send a paper return by snail mail.
I don’t want to make it any easier to audit me or siphon my bank account dry than it already is.
This guy got $50 per check? That’s it?
He belongs in jail because he is too stupid to be on his own.
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