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Connecticut postmaster pleads guilty to defrauding USPS of nearly $875,000 Ephrem D. Nguyen, of Danbury, CT, misused USPS credit cards, received bribes from a maintenance vendor
Ephrem D. Nguyen, a longtime postmaster from Danbury, Connecticut, has admitted to defrauding the U.S. Postal Service for nearly $875,000. (Fox News) As the postmaster since 2003, Nguyen was in charge of supervising the maintenance and repair of all equipment, facilities and vehicles. Federal prosecutors said he required in November 2020 the work to be performed by a particular vendor, even though another vendor already had a contract with the Danbury post office. Nguyen then demanded the new vendor provide free repairs to his personal vehicle and the vehicles of one of his children, a USPS employee and an employee at Nguyen’s personal business. In 2022, Nguyen solicited and received a $30,000 bribe from the same vendor in exchange for agreeing to ensure the USPS overpaid for the work, using credit cards assigned to the Danbury Post Office, prosecutors said. Later that year, he solicited and received a $60,000 bribe from the same vendor with the same arrangement.
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