A Chicago woman who worked for the U.S. Postal Service is charged with stealing checks from customers’ outgoing mail and depositing the money into her own bank account, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Thursday.
Teneshya Harris, 36, faces four counts of theft by deception and four counts of forgery, all Class 3 felonies, in connection with the scam.
Raoul said Harris took checks from the mail and either made the checks payable to herself or altered them to increase the dollar amounts before endorsing and depositing them into her personal bank account.
U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General referred the case to Raoul’s office.
“Americans rely on the integrity and reliability of the U.S. Postal Service, and it is unacceptable that any Postal Service employee would abuse their position to take advantage of the public they are supposed to serve,” Raoul said. “I will continue to partner with federal agencies to hold individuals accountable when they defraud the public for their own personal financial gain.”
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