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Liberty postal investigation is ended
TweetLIBERTY — An investigation involving a $19,791 shortfall at the former Liberty Township post office is officially closed.
Its closure is confirmed in a letter sent to township and Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office by Leo A. Fernandez, forensic accountant in the Criminal Justice Section, Special Prosecutions Unit of the Ohio Attorney General’s office.
The post office, which operated in the Liberty Township Administration Building at 1315 Hubbard-Churchill Road, closed Nov. 19, 2007. It opened in 1979. An audit from Sept. 25, 2006, to Sept. 27, 2007, revealed the deficit.
Liberty Township police and the prosecutor’s office were involved in an investigation of the loss of money and merchandise at the post office. They encountered obstacles when trying to subpoena information from the U.S. Postal Service.
Mark Finamore, law director for the township, said the forensic accountant’s investigation hoped to determine how the shortfall occurred. But the investigation was not able to gather the needed information.
Read more in Saturday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
Comments
This is ridiculous to the point that it is laughable.
Bottom line: Nearly $20,000 is missing and nobody will be held responsible. Somebody made a huge illegal profit and we're suppossed to think that it is not a problem. All the while the Post Office is crying about loosing money. Yet somebody is responsible for nearly 20 grand being missing but that's OK????? Something is VERY wrong here.
What a message. Uncle Sam charges me $20.00 interest for a $4.00 error in my tax return plus a $15.00 penalty for an error in tax software and yet $20,000.00 goes missing and we can't do anything about it? Maybe if that money would have put the USA over the top for universal health care we would have had some action.
There you go postal employees...your problems are your own fault. Raise your rates, cut your services, people find alternative methods and you whine and raise your rates and cut your services again.Maybe Liberty needs to raise their postal rates until the 20K is recovered.
Bring back the Pony Express....
i spoke to another teller in antoer post office and was told it was all a computer glitch in Akron. I don't know if it's true or not but we need that post office to reopen as promised months ago. And...a few months back on the new, it was stated twice the amount was $1,900...not $19,000...i believe the workers took nothing...after all the accusations they did, no one wants to say OOPS WE WERE WRONG
This was a contract station, not an official USPS post office.