Former Postal Worker Convicted in $900,000 Fraud Case

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that a jury convicted a former postal worker of perpetrating a 25-year fraud scheme that netted at least $900,000 in workers' compensation benefits. A federal jury on Friday convicted Luann Middleton, 72, of wire fraud in connection with her repeated submission of false workers' compensation forms, prosecutors said. Middleton claimed that she injured her lower back while working as a postal clerk in August 1997. She returned to work briefly in 1999 but claimed to have a recurrence of her back injury that le...