{"id":1760004,"date":"2022-12-02T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760004"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:34:34","slug":"stefanik-demands-postal-service-investigate-targeted-theft-of-campaign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stefanik-demands-postal-service-investigate-targeted-theft-of-campaign-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanik Demands Postal Service Investigate \u2018Targeted Theft\u2019 of Campaign Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstefanik-demands-postal-service-investigate-targeted-theft-of-campaign-donations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Republican congresswoman alleges USPS employees stole $20,000 in donations<\/p>\n<p>    Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/benjamin-wilson\/\" title=\"Posts by Benjamin Wilson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Benjamin Wilson<\/a> \u2022 December 2, 2022 1:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is demanding an investigation into the &#8220;repeated, targeted theft&#8221; of campaign donation checks while in transit through the United States Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is unacceptable that USPS has repeatedly allowed these targeted thefts to occur,&#8221; Stefanik\u2019s attorneys wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1E4oEQQGeFo9U0l4Ko3HsZBQMRhVmLPG1\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1E4oEQQGeFo9U0l4Ko3HsZBQMRhVmLPG1\/view&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1670085931892000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0RsshdGF1Gc1Y1Y45zv8RO\">letter<\/a> Thursday to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. They allege packages were &#8220;ripped open&#8221; and checks &#8220;stolen&#8221; totaling nearly $20,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The attorneys claim the postal service\u2019s Office of the Inspector General said it would be hard to find guilty employees &#8220;unless and until&#8221; a donor &#8220;becomes the victim&#8221; of identity theft or fraud.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In each case, the evidence indicates that Elise for Congress\u2019s packages were plundered by a USPS employee or contractor while the packages were in transit,&#8221; the letter said, adding there were four separate incidents between June and November.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stefanik&#8217;s campaign released pictures Friday showing ripped envelopes with apology letters from the USPS.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stefanik and her attorneys demanded a list of the steps taken to investigate the theft and evidence that improvements are made to prevent Stefanik from falling victim to mail crime.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Our clients were told months ago to expect a report from senior USPS OIG officials addressing the June 2022 mail theft incident, but to date have not received a report,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The USPS did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is demanding an investigation into the &#8220;repeated, targeted theft&#8221; of campaign donation checks while in transit through the United States Postal Service.<br \/>\nThe post Stefanik Demands Postal Service Investigate \u2018Targeted Theft\u2019 of Campaign Donations appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1760008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}