| Postman Who Stole
and Washed Checks From Gracie
Station Gets Weekends in Halfway
House
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 29 – Aubrey Frazer, a US
Postal Service employee, was
arrested on June 8, 2023 for
stealing and "washing" bank
checks while a postman on
Manhattan's Upper East
Side.
The
complaint describes him
walking off with mail in the
Gracie Station Post Office,
then a sample $417 check to
New York Presbyterian being
washed to say $20,000, to
another account.
On
December 6 Frazer came to
plead guilty before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Jennifer E.
Willis. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag
Court.
Frazer had a Pimintel letter
from the prosecutors,
estimating his guideline
sentence as 12 to 18 months.
The case is
assigned to District Judge
Rakoff, who referred the plea
down to the Mag Court as he
had a (pro se) criminal bench
trial going.
On April 29,
Inner City Press covered the
sentencing. The US Attorney's
Office wanted one year; the
defense wanted no jail time,
arguing that general
deterrence didn't matter
because no one would look up
this sentence. Inner City
Press was there, reporting,
down to the sentence imposed:
weekends in a halfway house
for three months beginning in
June, and a $5000 fine that
the defense also opposed.
This case is US
v. Frazer, 23-cr-635 (Rakoff)
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