Feds: Derby resident who was Middletown postal worker sentenced for stealing packages
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The Middletown Post Office is located at 11 Silver St.Contributed photo / Sen. Chris Murphy
MIDDLETOWN A 34-year-old former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced this week to three years of probation, the first nine months of which he must serve in home confinement, for stealing mail, federal authorities said in a release.
Zoheb A. Deura of Derby was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport, who also ordered Deura to pay a $20,000 fine, the release from the office of Connecticut U.S. Attorney John H. Durham said.
Jan 13, 2021
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First, it was a series of problems with government-issued technology in the field. Then it was a wave of complaints about duplicative work, arbitrary terminations and haphazard management practices.
Now, Census Bureau workers from across the country claim that efforts to speed up and streamline the count generated major confusion – and, in some areas, may have reduced data quality.
Census Bureau says it will stop trying to provide Trump with tally of undocumented
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Jan. 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Census Bureau has apparently abandoned its effort to compile tallies of undocumented immigrants, effectively ending President Donald Trump s quest to exclude them from congressional apportionment, according to a letter posted on its website Wednesday afternoon.
The statement came a day after the Commerce Department s Office of Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter outlining reports from whistleblowers who said Trump appointees in the bureau have been making a last-ditch push to produce tallies of undocumented immigrants so the president could try to exclude them from congressional representation before he leaves office next week.
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