Baltimore Woman Ordered to Pay more than $240,000 in Restitution for false Statements

A U.S. district judge in Maryland has sentenced a Baltimore woman for making false statements to obtain federal employee compensation benefits, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office release. Colette Lee, of Baltimore, was sentenced to 18 months' confinement, followed by three years of supervised release and must pay $244,912.65, the amount of loss incurred by the U.S. Postal Service and the federal Department of Agriculture as the result of her actions. According to her plea agreement, Lee, 49, worked as a letter carrier and later a mail handler for the postal service from 2003 to ...