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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees pleaded guilty Monday to federal criminal charges accusing them of unlawfully buying and cashing tens of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of Postal money orders, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"brown<\/a>The money orders were purchased with unemployment benefits fraudulently obtained with false claims of COVID-related job losses, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christian Jeremyah James, 31, of South Los Angeles, who worked in the Culver City Main Post Office, and Armand Caleb Legardy, 32, of Inglewood, who worked in the La Tijera Post Office on Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles, each plead guilty in separate hearings to one count of use of unauthorized access devices.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu has scheduled sentencing hearings of October 7 for James and September 30 for Legardy, at which time each defendant will face a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>\u00a0 According to their plea agreements, from August 2020 to February 2021, James and Legardy used debit cards that the California Employment Development Department (EDD) had issued to other people for unemployment insurance benefits \u2013 cards that were obtained by other unidentified individuals using stolen identities and false information.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James and Legardy admitted they used the EDD-issued debit cards in other people\u2019s names to purchase or cash money orders from the USPS and to withdraw thousands of dollars in cash from bank ATMs. <\/span><\/p>\n

The defendants also admitted that they deposited multiple fraudulently purchased Postal money orders directly into their own bank accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"brown<\/a>Between September 3 and September 19, 2020, James deposited more than $27,000 worth of USPS money orders into his bank account, according to his plea agreement. <\/span><\/p>\n

Legardy deposited more than $10,000 in USPS money orders that had been illegally purchased with California EDD cards in other people\u2019s names, his plea agreement states.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James admitted to knowingly using at least eight EDD debit cards in other people\u2019s names and causing a loss of approximately $142,652. <\/span><\/p>\n

Legardy admitted to illegally using nine EDD cards and causing a loss of approximately $160,879, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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