A former U.S. Postal Service worker pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges for submitting phony mileage reimbursement requests to the federal Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.
Six months after he started working for the USPS in October 1988, Michael McCree filed a workers’ compensation claim for a back injury and has never returned to work, according to a 2012 indictment filed with the federal court in Sacramento. He has collected about $2,300 a month in indemnity benefits since the injury.
Since 2007, he has received another $124,000 in travel reimbursement, the majority o...
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