LOS ANGELES—Two U.S. Postal Service employees pleaded guilty in Los Angeles on May 24 to federal criminal charges accusing them of unlawfully buying and cashing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of postal money orders with unemployment benefits fraudulently obtained with false claims of COVID-related job losses.
Christian Jeremyah James, 31, of South Los Angeles, who worked in the Culver City Main Post Office, and Armand Caleb Legardy, 32, of Inglewood, who worked in the La Tijera Post Office on Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles, each pleaded guilty in separate hearings to one count of use of unauthorized access devices, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
