LOS ANGELES – A former United States Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for scheming to steal more than $250,000 in unemployment insurance (UI) funds by making false claims of COVID-related job losses and for stealing UI debit cards intended for other people on his mail route.
Stephen Glover, 33, of Palmdale, was sentenced by United States District Judge Percy Anderson, who also ordered him to pay $151,698 in restitution.
Glover pleaded guilty on July 11 to one count of mail fraud and one count of theft of mail matter by an officer or employee.
Judge Anderson today also sentenced Glover’s co-schemer, Travis McKenzie, 26, of Valencia, to 41 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay $448,228 in restitution. McKenzie, who lived on Glover’s mail route, pleaded guilty on July 13 to a three-count information charging him with mail fraud, mail theft and identity theft.
From August 2020 to June 2021, while he was employed at the United States Post Office in Valencia, Glover schemed to defraud the California Employment Development Department (EDD) out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 -related unemployment benefits. Glover’s co-schemers applied for unemployment benefits using false statements and sometimes using stolen identities. Based upon the fraudulent claims, EDD mailed out debit cards to addresses listed on the applications.
The fraudulent UI claims were federally funded through programs authorized by Congress in...
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