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Mail carrier admits stealing $443,000 in tax refund checks
Cbs ^ | April 29, 2016

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; newjersey; pennsauken; taxes
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1 posted on 04/30/2016 2:20:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

I’ve been getting mine direct deposit for years. Do people still get actual checks in the mail?


2 posted on 04/30/2016 2:22:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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To: lowbridge

Less than Cruz is taking from he poor unsuspecting supporters, but still a sizeable sum.


3 posted on 04/30/2016 2:23:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (regurgitateTED)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


4 posted on 04/30/2016 2:25:23 PM PDT by corlorde
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"Do people still get actual checks 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.

5 posted on 04/30/2016 2:26:23 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: lowbridge

The problem is that this carrier obviously had Champagne taste.


6 posted on 04/30/2016 2:28:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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Who the hell gives a child a name like that?


7 posted on 04/30/2016 2:29:42 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: lowbridge

Was his name Newman?


8 posted on 04/30/2016 2:30:16 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: lowbridge

Government workers are genetically disposed to laziness and criminality.

Example: Government worker Teachers..


9 posted on 04/30/2016 2:31:22 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: lowbridge

You would really, really have to be an absolute flaming moron to commit mail theft for $50 an instance.


10 posted on 04/30/2016 2:32:01 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: lowbridge

The game was going along fine until someone who actually ‘EARNED’ the refund didn’t get his check and they raised hell.


11 posted on 04/30/2016 2:35:59 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Pols headstone- Please bury me not so deep so I can continue to fleece the sheep")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“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.


12 posted on 04/30/2016 2:37:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: lowbridge

bet he still has his affirmative action job. the article also says he sold the checks for fiddy bucks apiece


13 posted on 04/30/2016 2:40:03 PM PDT by changeitback440
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To: SamAdams76

“Do people still get actual checks in the mail?”

Well, apparently not as many as thought they were going to.


14 posted on 04/30/2016 2:40:36 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


15 posted on 04/30/2016 2:41:14 PM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: lowbridge
The perp


16 posted on 04/30/2016 2:41:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: changeitback440

Promoted out of the way to something even easier and probably better paying.

It’s been done in state gov jobs here and there.


17 posted on 04/30/2016 2:42:08 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: lowbridge
other people, who weren't named in court documents.

Someone above the law that not only can't be prosecuted, but can't even be named?

18 posted on 04/30/2016 2:43:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SamAdams76

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.


19 posted on 04/30/2016 2:58:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: lowbridge

This guy got $50 per check? That’s it?

He belongs in jail because he is too stupid to be on his own.


20 posted on 04/30/2016 2:59:38 PM PDT by billyboy15
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