Two former postal workers face multiple charges in an alleged scheme in which they stole and sold U.S. Treasury checks, including Social Security benefits, tax refunds, and COVID-19 stimulus checks, the Justice Department announced.
The two defendants, Kevaughn Wellington and Ky-Mani Straker, are accused of conspiring to engage in a Treasury check theft scheme, which involved the theft of parcels containing the checks from the United States Postal Service (USPS) mail facility located at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, where they both worked, according to a July 9 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York.
