Video Surveillance Leads to Fraud Charge against former Postal Worker and Wife

A former postal worker and his wife are charged in a three-count indictment with defrauding the federal government to obtain workers' compensation and Veteran's Administration benefits, according to a report in the Buffalo News Thursday. A federal grand jury indicted 57-year-old Richard Klaffka and his wife, 61-year-old Cathleen, both of Holland, New York, with mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud, the newspaper reported. Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Rogowski told the Buffalo News that Richard Klaffka told the VA in 2006 that he had been disabled by a 197...