A second ex-U.S. Postal Service letter carrier based in Los Angeles was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for helping to steal more than $10 million in Treasury and other checks from the mail over four years, authorities said.
Charlie Banks Green Jr., 37, of East Los Angeles was sentenced on Monday, Sept. 15, by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who ordered him to pay $1.62 million in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Green — who worked at the Bicentennial Post Office in the Fairfax district — pleaded guilty in April in downtown Los Angeles to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
Ex-letter carrier from Huntington Beach who stole more than $10 million in checks gets 5 years
Green admitted stealing mail containing large value checks, as well as debit cards from the California Employment Development Department, which manages the state’s unemployment insurance program, while the scheme operated from 2020 through August 2024, according to his plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court.
Green worked alongside friend Rashad Deon Stolden, 34, of Huntington Beach who also pleaded guilty to the conspiracy count and received the same penalty as Green when he was sentenced two weeks ago.
Both defendants sold the checks they stole to co-conspirators who used fake IDs to cash them, prosecutors said.
For example, in June 2022, Stolden stole a $7.3 million Treasury check, which he then sold to an accomplice, who negotiated it at a bank in Tennessee, according to court documents. The accomplice was able to withdraw more than $1 million from the deposit of the check, federal officials said.
Some of the co-conspirators have been prosecuted in separate court proceedings, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.