[Dataloss] NY postal worker stealing & using credit cards

[Henry Brown]

Sorta related question:  would US Postal Service have any liability?


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lipost225659376apr22,0,7641397.story

Cops arrest Smithtown postal worker
BY ANDREW SCHARFF
April 22, 2008

A Smithtown postal worker was arrested after he stole credit cards from 
the mail and went on a shopping spree, authorities said.

Paul Hank, 44, who has worked as a distribution clerk at the Smithtown 
Post Office for 15 years, used the cards to pay for clothing, meals at 
restaurants, computer equipment and power tools, Suffolk police said.

Police were tipped off when consumers notified credit card companies 
that their new cards were not arriving through the mail, said Det. Lt. 
Robert Edwards of the Fourth Squad.

The consumers didn't receive their new cards but they were getting bills 
with fraudulent charges on them, police said. Suffolk police used video 
surveillance from the retail stores where Hank, of Yaphank, shopped, 
Edwards said.

The purchases were made starting perhaps as long ago as December, police 
said.

Authorities arrested Hank after a two-month-long investigation conducted 
jointly by the Fourth and Sixth squads along with agents of the U.S. 
Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

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