Jan 14, 2017

How Did He Get Away With It For So Long?

     From the AP:
A former Tampa Bay area postal employee faces up to 15 years in federal prison for stealing more than $2 million in Social Security checks.
A U.S. Attorney's Office news release says jurors found 48-year-old Stacy Darnell Mitchell guilty Wednesday of theft of government property and theft of mail. His sentencing date hasn't been set.
Mitchell was a mail handler for more than 15 years at the processing and distribution center in St. Petersburg. Authorities say Mitchell stole more than 3,000 Social Security benefit checks from the facility from January to October 2012. The checks were sold and cashed at various convenience stores and check cashing businesses.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

st peteresburg police are crap....CRAP.....poeple called the cops in st peteresburg but the police told them to go to hell....when is the FEDS going to do some thing about st pteresburg?????

Anonymous said...

15 years? what happened when people called social security and said they had not received their checks? I don't quite understand how this is possible?

Anonymous said...

As in many agencies, there just isn't much in accountability. The police protect their govt institutions rather than the citizens as we've seen through the years in workers compensation, where many police with district attorneys and PI's are in fact paid directly by corporations as is part of the FBI. The SSA is as unfettered as the CIA. The AFLCIO is in charge with much of this with the many govt employees. Everyone is a criminal but the criminal.

Anonymous said...

The conduct was in 2012 -- not over 15 years. He was a post office employee for 15 years, but the theft took place in 2012.