Postal employee goes Postal

According to the feds.. "Today, JEFFREY LEMON, JR., 30, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve twelve months in a federal prison for theft of mail by a Postal Service employee, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.  

A federal grand jury indicted Lemon on September 1, 2015, alleging that he stole money orders deposited in the mail by Postal Service customers.  Lemon pled not guilty and went to trial on December 1, 2015.  According to evidence presented at trial, Lemon was an employee at the U.S. Post Office in Warr Acres, Oklahoma.  Evidence showed that between March 2015 and June 2015, Lemon stole money orders deposited in the mail by Postal Service customers at the Warr Acres Post Office and cashed them for his benefit.  The jury found him guilty on 17 counts of theft of mail by a postal service employee.  Judge Russell dismissed one count during the course of trial.

At a sentencing hearing today, Judge Russell sentenced Lemon to serve twelve months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.  He was also ordered to pay $11,803.65 in restitution to the United States Postal Service, which had previously reimbursed Lemon’s victims for their losses."

My question is that how come he got such little time, even after going to trial? In my opinion,it is based on the amount of money he stole.  They gave him one year prison for stealing 11 thousand dollars.

I sat almost 44 months for immigration fraud. I remember meeting one postal employee in MDC Brooklyn who got 6 months prison sentence. The lesson from this story is don't steal the mail.

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