Former Postal Carrier Pleads Guilty to Fraud

A former postal carrier who worked for an accounting firm while receiving more than $500,000 in workers' compensation benefits pleaded guilty to fraud, federal prosecutors in North Carolina announced. Sandra C. Throneburg, 74, stopped working as a rural postal carrier after sustaining an injury at work in September 2015. In October 2015, she started collecting workers' compensation benefits. Throneburg failed to disclose that she worked for an accounting firm from 2016 to 2020 when submitting forms to continue receiving Federal Employees' Compensation Act benefits. Prosecutors s...