Posted on 08/31/2025 4:51:43 AM PDT by DFG
A former US postal investigator who oversaw the fraud department has been charged with stealing more than $330,000 from packages mailed by victims and using the money for home renovations, vacations and escorts, according to the Justice Department.
Scott Kelley, 51, of Massachusetts, was charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Boston Friday with wire fraud, mail fraud, mail theft by a postal officer, theft of government money, money laundering, structuring to evade reporting requirements and filing false tax returns.
After allegedly stealing cash from packages, Kelley laundered it and used $15,400 to pay for sexual services from two escorts, sometimes on workdays; $30,188 for a new swimming pool patio and lighting; a granite countertop for his outdoor bar; and $4,300 on a Caribbean cruise.
The US Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service, and from 2015 until June 2022, Kelley worked as the team leader for its Mail Fraud Unit, which investigates scams of the very people he allegedly targeted.
He also worked as team leader of the Mail Theft Unit from June 2022 until August 2023.
Kelley allegedly sent deceitful emails to unwitting postal employees between 2019 and 2023, telling them to intercept packages that were determined to have been sent by victims of a Jamaican scam that targeted Americans.
The scammers claimed the victims needed to send money to get lottery or sweepstakes winnings.
Kelley told the postal workers to send the packages to him.
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Im sure this was one of many
US postal investigator Scott Kelley, 51, of Massachusetts, was
charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Boston Friday.
Charged with
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After allegedly stealing cash from packages amounting to $330,000, Kelley laundered it and used $15,400 to pay for sexual services from two escorts, sometimes on workdays; $30,188 for a new swimming pool patio and lighting; a granite countertop for his outdoor bar; and $4,300 on a Caribbean cruise.
Gee... I wonder why there are no pictures of him.
So you’re saying, at least he didn’t waste the money? 😜
The post office has turned into complete poo. DO NOT send checks or financial instruments through the mails. This has been my approach for at least 5-6 years based on my somewhat insider knowledge of what was going on with our local post office at the time.
We have a Dem Senator trash talking the post office, it is so bad here.
I find that the alpha numeric system is NOT a prerequisite for being a postal employee.
Probably a white guy.
Renovations are not worth it-reciepts.
Escorts? Even the strongest men are weak.
Could be him center, at the mic----all i could find.
“Could be him center, at the mic——all i could find”
Highly unlikely. More likely the DOJ employee announcing the bust.
The post office has turned into complete poo. DO NOT send checks or financial instruments through the mails. This has been my approach for at least 5-6 years based on my somewhat insider knowledge of what was going on with our local post office at the time. We have a Dem Senator trash talking the post office, it is so bad here.
Probably.
No pictures of the perp everywhere I looked.
Did he think he wouldn’t be caught?????
I refuse to mail birthday money through the PO anymore. Even lately, a friend mailed just a card to her grandson and it got to him being nothing but an empty envelope with the top neatly slit open.
That man needs to spend the rest of his living life in a cage with his home, pension and his daughters liquidated to pay for his sins.
I hope this piece of 💩 spends a lot of time in the pokey. I hope he has to pay every cent back too and lose that fancy pool.
The Chinese would have walked him out the door to the gutter, and shot him, washing the blood down the storm drain. The revolutionary French would have rolled the guillotine up to his door and gave him a chance for a final word.
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“...stealing cash from packages...”
People do that in the mail?
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