NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former letter carrier has admitted his role in a scheme to steal and convert hundreds of blank postal service money orders.
Federal prosecutors say Jonel Normil pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy count. The 26-year-old Little Egg Harbor man faces up to five years in prison when he’s sentenced Aug. 16 and will forfeit about $181,000.
Prosecutors say Normil was a letter carrier in Cape May Court House and also picked up and dropped off mail at the Stone Harbor post office.
He admitted taking the money orders and giving them to other conspirators who made them look legitimate and imprinted them with dollar values of $900 or $1,000. They then deposited them into bank accounts or cashed them at post offices in New Jersey, New York, and Georgia.
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