Ex-Postal fraud investigator allegedly stole more than $330K from elderly scam victims he was meant to protect
According to the Ministry of Justice, a former US mail researcher who controls the fraud department was accused of stealing more than $ 330,000 from the packages mail mail by victims and using the money for home renovations, holidays and escorts.
51 -year -old Scott Kelley from Massachusetts was accused of a 45 census indictment by offering a wire fraud, postal fraud, postal fraud, postal theft, government money theft, black money laundering, reporting requirements by a great jury in Boston on Friday.
After allegedly stealing cash from the packages, Kelley justified him and sometimes used $ 15,400 to pay for sexual services from two escort on working days; $ 30.188 for a new swimming pool patio and lighting; A granite bench for the open bar; And $ 4,300 on a Caribbean trip.
The US Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement lever of the Posta Service and from 2015 to June 2022, Kelley worked as a team leader for the Postal Fraud Unit investigating the fraudulent people allegedly targeted.
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He also worked as the team leader of the Mail Theft unit from June 2022 to August 2023.
Kelley is allegedly sending deceptive e -mails to the post -unaware postal employees between 2019-2023, and told them to stop the packets determined to be sent by a Jamaican scam victims targeting Americans. Frauds claimed that the victims should send money to get lottery or lottery earnings. Kelley told the mail workers to send the packages to him.
Mail workers had the authority to cut the packages marked by a scam victims, but the sender was not allowed to open them without the consent.
If it was opened, the mail worker had to count the money with another worker and send a check for this amount.
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Doj is believed that Kelley demanded that 1,950 packages be sent to him.
In the indictment, seven alleged victims with an average of 75 years are identified. The oldest victim was 82.
The victims were mail to fraudsters between $ 1,400 and $ 19,100.
It is claimed that Kelley came together with one of the victims, and the victim said that there was no package and said, “His losses had their own mistakes because they have been mail. None of the victims did not regain their packages or cash.”
He was also accused of using the key of another postal inspector, who was a direct report on him, stole $ 7,000 from a closet and accused the employee for theft.
Kelley laundered approximately $ 340,000 in cash by purchasing postal money orders and hiding the fact that it was buyer and creditor and spreading more than 60 bank deposits through four bank accounts in two banks.
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Each wire fraud, money laundering and mail fraud fee, five years for each postal theft and configuration to avoid reporting requirements, 10 years for government money and three years for each counterfeit tax return is paid.
