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Man Who Cashed More Than $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders Sentenced Man Who Cashed More Than $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders Sentenced
Man Who Cashed More Than $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders Sentenced A Connecticut man with a criminal history will spend time in prison after conspiring with his wife to steal more than 150 U.S. Postal money orders and cashing more than $60,000. James Lebel, formerly of the township of Brooklyn in Windham County, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud late last year. Label, 40, and his wife, Michelle Barbeau, a USPS employee at the Wauregan Post Office in Plainfield conspired to take 179 blank money orders and imprinted them with various den…

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Two Charged With Cashing Over $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders Two Charged With Cashing Over $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders
Two Charged With Cashing Over $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders A former United States Postal Service employee and a co-conspirator are facing prison time after allegedly stealing more than $60,000 in postal money orders in Connecticut. John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that former USPS employee Michelle Barbeau, of Brooklyn, and James Lebel were arrested this week for offenses related to the theft of the money orders. The indictment charges that while employed at the Wauregan Post Office in Plainfield, between April and September last year, the two conspired to take blank U.S. Postal money orders from th…

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