Source: United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area Field Office of the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (“USPS-OIG”), Matthew M. Modafferi, announced today that PIAN PIAN WONG-TAM, a former United States Postal Service (“USPS”) Mail Processing Clerk in White Plains, New York, and WILLIAM WONG, a former USPS Mail Clerk in Millwood, New York, were presented today before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy on charges that they engaged in a scheme and conspiracy in which WONG-TAM removed mail entrusted to her by USPS, stole gift cards and other items out of that mail, and then, together with WONG, used those gift cards and other items for their own personal gain.