A former U.S. Postal Service employee in Delaware who defrauded taxpayers of almost $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits has been sentenced to probation. Lakisha Hines was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in March to one count of federal employee compensation …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear an evangelical Christian former mail carrier’s claim of religious discrimination against the U.S. Postal Service after he was disciplined for refusing to work on Sundays in a case that could …
A federal workplace safety inspection of a U.S. Postal Service location in Pennsylvania found employees exposed to potentially serious and fatal injuries in the event of an emergency. Responding to a complaint, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and …
A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has been sentenced on a federal charge in Maryland for making false statements to obtain disability compensation. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Ronald S. Repass, age 57, of Poolesville, Maryland, to five …
A former postal employee has been sentenced to serve three years on probation for workers’ compensation fraud. Christine O’Neill, 61, of Johnson City, New York, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy for defrauding the U.S. …
Federal safety officials have proposed nearly $185,000 in penalties against the U.S. Postal Service, alleging exits were blocked at the Ankeny, Iowa, post office. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the office was inspected after the National Association of …
A federal judge has set some limits on key evidence and testimony in Lance Armstrong’s upcoming $100 million civil trial, including harm inflicted on former team sponsor U.S. Postal Service and whether the government should have known the cyclist and …
McArthur Baker, 69, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP), according to U.S. …
A federal judge has refused to block the government’s $100 million lawsuit against Lance Armstrong, putting the former cyclist on course for trial in a 2010 case stemming from his performance-enhancing drug use. The lawsuit was filed by Armstrong’s former …
A Central Texas chiropractor must serve 14 years in prison and repay the U.S. government nearly $18 million in a workers’ compensation referral scam. Prosecutors say Garry Wayne Craighead of Leander ran clinics mainly treating injured U.S. Postal Service workers …
