Louisiana postal employee pleads guilty to money order theft
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20 — The U.S. Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following press release:
SANDRA F. FRANCOIS, age 46, a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to a one-count of Bill of Information charging conversion of a U. S. Postal Money Order, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten today.
According to the Factual Basis, on December 5, 2007, FRANCOIS, who at the time was a Paulina Post Office employee, took a U. S. Postal Money Order in the amount of $800 and cashed it for her own personal use. The defendant faces a possible maximum penalty of one (1) year of imprisonment, a fine of not more than $100,000.00 and one (1) year of supervised release. She is scheduled to be sentenced on November 12, 2008.
The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward J. Rivera.
September 6th, 2008 08:27
Another postal employee gone bad. How many more do this type of crime and get away with it. Why would someone who gets paid such a good wage and great benefits that we are told of do this to the public.