EXCLUSIVE by Lynn EspejoSouth East Bureau ChiefThe Midnight ReportOn Thursday of this week, an inmate being held at the private prison facility in Robstown, Texas, reports witnessing a raid conducted by FBI, ATF, ICE, US Marshals, and other federal agencies. The inmate reports that the raid resulted in several officers
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On the morning of September 21, 2020, three trays of United States mail were discovered in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin. The local sheriff’s office reported that the mail dump included several absentee ballots. When a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson made a similar assertion two days later, a local Fox affiliate, WLUK, reported the statement on its website. And then a national network of conservative commentators and influencers did something that happened again and again last fall: They picked up a bare-bones news story and made it sound nefarious.
Within hours, Jim Hoft, the combative founder and editor of
Muskogee, OK The United States Attorney s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Gene Morgan a/k/a Kenny Morgan of Muskogee, Oklahoma was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341 and Tax Fraud, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1). Morgan was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $442,883.66 to Direct Traffic Control, Inc. and restitution in the amount of $119,467.87 to the Internal Revenue Service. The charges arose from an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bradley Jon Matheny was convicted on postage stamp forgery counts and export violations.
Matheny, 42, faces up to 65 years in prison and a $2.5 million fine.
An Iowa man is facing up to 65 years in prison for forging postage stamps on 28,000 packages and costing the United States Postal Office $250,000, according to the Department of Justice.
Bradley Jon Matheny was convicted on Wednesday on seven counts of postage meter stamp forgery and counterfeiting, as well as three counts of export violations.
Matheny is the owner of Mathenys, an eBay-based business that shipped retail goods around the globe. According to court filings, Matheny relied upon the USPS to ship items to his customers, but at a large financial cost. In order to cut down on mailing expenses, Matheny admitted in court to forging the postage meter stamps on the packaging.
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