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A 26-year-old postal worker from New Jersey faces federal charges after nearly 2,000 pieces of mail, including ballots, were found discarded in dumpsters, but prosecutors do not believe there was any political motive in the case.
Nicholas Beauchene faces charges of delay, secretion or detention of mail and obstruction of mail after about 1,875 pieces of mail, including 99 general election ballots, intended for Essex County, New Jersey, locations were found in dumpsters on Friday and Monday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
U.S. Attorney Sara Merin had asked for bail to be set at $50,000 because Beauchene had resigned from his job with the postal service and admitted to dumping the mail, though there was no indication that there was any political motive.
Beauchene did not say anything during his first court appearance, which was held Wednesday via Zoom. He was released on $25,000 bail into the custody of his brother.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/postal-worker-charged-nearly-2-234714360.html
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(13,122 posts)Cadfael
(1,297 posts)he has been working for the Postal Service since July.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/mail-ballots-dumped-new-jersey-ballots/index.html
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(13,122 posts)tirebiter
(2,538 posts)He fucked up.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)The postal service is pretty rigorous about tracking its trucks and the mail carriers. I was told by one mailman that the trucks are equipped with GPS tracking. This kid probably couldn't finish his route on time and just chucked the balance of his mail.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)The stuff that will be going on in the postal system with mail-in ballots, and the surrounding conspiracy theories, is going to make the voting machine controversy of 2000/2004 look like a human interest story.