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I read in your news articles
today about the USPSOIG (Office of Inspector General) taking over the postal inspectors duties of internal
crime. This is of interest to me as I have had a "recent bogus charge"
against me that was eventually reversed by the USAO (United States Attorneys
Office), but not before it cost
my family $25,000.00 for an attorney, stress and personal embarrassment as
an article came out in the local Sunday paper telling all of my "alleged"
embezzlement.
I have a long-standing problem with the
inspection service, at least from their stand point, as I reported one of
them for illegal and improper actions. The IG did investigate this, yet did
NOT ever produce an investigative memorandum on it. Only because I had
filed an EEO on this situation did I find out this inspector was removed for
improper conduct. I was never told anything about his whereabouts, or what
was going on with the investigation, even though, I was being stalked,
harassed, and multiple attempts were made to make me look like a liar, cheat
and criminal. This particular instance just was the icing on the cake
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RELEASE: April 16, 2004 |
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SUBJECT: REED, Karen M. |
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MUSKOGEE,
OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Sheldon J. (Shelly) Sperling
announced today that the United States Grand Jury for the Eastern
District of Oklahoma, meeting at Muskogee, returned an indictment
against KAREN M. REED, age 42, of Idabel, Oklahoma.
REED was
charged in a one-count Indictment by the Grand Jury alleging
misappropriation of postal funds.
REED
faces a maximum punishment of imprisonment of not more than ten
(10) years and/or a fine of up to $250,000.00.
The
charges arise from an investigation by United States Postal
Inspection Service
involving the theft of postal funds by a window clerk at the
United States Post Office in Idabel, Oklahoma.
A grand
jury Indictment does not constitute evidence of guilt. A grand
jury Indictment is a method of bringing formal charges against the
defendant. A defendant is presumed innocent of the charges and may
not be found guilty unless evidence establishes guilt beyond a
reasonable doubt.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/oke/press0404.html
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Also see the
newspaper article that came out in my hometown paper
(McCurtain Daily Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma)
below:
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Idabel postal worker Indicted
 Muskogee
- Idabel resident Karen M. Reed, 42, has been indicted by a federal
grand jury here, U. S. Attorney Sheldon (Shelly) Sperling announced
Friday.
Reed was charged in a one-count
indictment alleging misappropriation of postal funds.
She faces a maximum punishment of
imprisonment for not more than 10 years and/or a fine of up to the
amount of money embezzled, Sperling indicated.
The charges arise from an
investigation by the U. S. Postal Inspection Service involving theft
of funds by a window clerk in Idabel post office.
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This article blew me away that day as
I had NO idea that it was going to be happening. I literally saw
the heading and thought to myself, I wonder who that is
about........!!!!
I should have known as the
inspectors had been here in January and wanted me to plead or
confess to a $1150.00 shortage as theft even though I had proof of
what happened and this so-called shortage did not just happen, it
began on June 30th, 2003 and grew daily until November, 2003. We
are POS 1 and I was not audited for 2 months partially because my
supervisor knew I was out as she was trying to cancel out a
stamp-stock account that I was set up with in error by her.
Entries were made daily to my
accountability and each day when I counted down, it would show a
growing amount of what I should have compared to what I really
had. Funny thing was when the investigation by this inspector
came out and was given to the USAO, there were mysterious balance
sheets signed by "ME" showing that I was audited every two weeks
and my shortages were zeroed out. I never signed those and told
them so. Those inspectors didn't care about forgery against me by
management or a $1200.00 shortage in retail stock that was covered
by my erroneous stock account.
It is interesting that they were here
in January trying to get me to plead guilty, threatening me by
telling me that they would "hate to take a mother away from here
two young children, "yet they filed nothing until April 15th, 3
days after I cashed an EEOC out of court settlement check that was
directly paid from the Postal Inspection Service.
This is a never ending saga that
currently is pending as a back pay award from the first time I was
fired and won my job back complete with full back pay, benefits,
etc. This was decided on April, 30th, 2003 and I have yet to see
a dime of this as management had just flat refused to pay it. No
appeal filed or anything. I have lost so much from this due to
auto repossessed, unpaid bills, utilities cut off, etc. As this
originally began on November 29th, 1999, my daughter graduated
from High School in 2000 and has been unable to pursue her college
degree the normal way. She has only been able to take a few
courses here and there and owes the college a small fortune.
full arbitration award (pdf)
I hope this transfer of
duties will benefit the USPS employees. I did turn this situation
in again to the USPSOIG telling them of the false charges against
me, reprisal, forgery, etc. I haven't heard anything back from them
but maybe they did take notice. Oh and here is a copy of the
reversal of my indictment and the article that followed in our local
paper. My case is pretty well known especially in Oklahoma.
click article below to find out why indictment
was dismissed
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