[Dataloss] NY postal worker stealing & using credit cards

[TS Glassey]

IANAL (I am NOT a lawyer) but the USPS is no longer a pure federal agency 
but rather a Corporation which is a fully owned subsidiary of the US 
Government per se. That means likely that Sovereign Immunity will prevent 
the employee's themselves from being liable until they leave the employee of 
the Entity.

Todd Glassey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Brown" <hbrown at knology.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:50 AM
Subject: [Dataloss] NY postal worker stealing & using credit cards


> 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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