Ex-letter carrier sentenced in stolen money order scheme
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A former letter carrier involved in a scheme to steal and convert hundreds of blank postal service money orders has been sentenced to a year in prison.
Federal prosecutors say Jonel Normil will also have to serve three years of supervised release under the sentence imposed Tuesday. The 26-year-old man from Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in May to a conspiracy count.
Prosecutors say Normil was a letter carrier in Cape May Court House and picked up and dropped off mail at the Stone Harbor post office.
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Normil admitted taking the money orders and giving them to other conspirators who made them look legitimate and imprinted them with dollar values of $900 or $1,000. They then deposited them into bank accounts or cashed them at post offices in New Jersey, New York and Georgia.