Oakland postal employee charged with wire fraud
Source: SF Chronicle
A U.S. Postal Service employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly billing the government more than $4 million using fraudulent invoices after steering contracts to a truck-leasing company that he and his wife helped to operate.
Balvinder Singh Chadha, who served as manager of postal vehicle service operations in Oakland, oversaw contracts with outside vendors and "knew that he was ethically prohibited from participating in USPS contracts in which he or his spouse had a financial interest," according to the charging document filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Oakland.
Instead, Chadha in 2005 nominated a trucking business that he and his wife operated and had invested in, Golden Pacific Logistics Inc. as a truck-leasing vendor for the postal service, federal prosecutors said.
From 2005 to 2009, Chadha submitted fraudulent invoices to the postal service, overstating the number of trucks leased and the mileage incurred by the vehicles, authorities said.
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The Postal Service can't afford any more of these stories. That 2006 bill to pre-fund benefits for 75 years was enough pain!
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