Postmaster steals $20K in MA money order scheme, spends some at casinos, feds say
A former postmaster in Massachusetts is accused of stealing nearly $20,000 in a money order scheme, federal prosecutors said.
Bethany LeBlanc, from Seekonk, was indicted in connection with a count of theft of government money, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a May 23 news release.
McClatchy News reached out to her attorney May 27 and was awaiting a response.
LeBlanc, 48, a longtime postal service employee, worked as Seekonk Post Office’s postmaster from late 2023 to the beginning of 2025, prosecutors said.
In the role, she “had the authority to issue and approve ‘no fee’ money orders,” which are used to pay postal service expenses, according to prosecutors.
Between September and December 2024, she “generated and issued” 25 of those orders to herself, according to the indictment.
They added up to more than $19,900, the indictment said.
LeBlanc would turn in purportedly genuine invoices for postal service expenses, and clerks would issue money orders, the news release said.
LeBlanc would “enter false information on the money orders to obtain the funds and avoid detection of her embezzlement,” the indictment said.
She used the money at casinos and on personal expenses, including rent, according to the indictment.
In a May 28 email to McClatchy News, Steve Doherty, a postal service spokesperson, said he couldn’t comment on the case because “there is an ongoing investigation by the Office of the Inspector General,” but “I can say that the type of behavior alleged here is in no way typical of the 640,000 dedicated postal employees who are entrusted with moving the nation’s mail each day.”
Seekonk is about a 55-mile drive south from Boston.
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