DETROIT – Four people, including two United States Postal Service workers, are facing federal charges in a $63 million stolen check scheme.
Jaiswan Williams, a 31-year-old from Rochester Hills; Dequan Foreman, a 30-year-old from Eastpointe; and 39-year-old Vanessa Hargrove and 31-year-old Crystal Jenkins, both from Detroit; have been charged with conspiracy to aid and abet bank and wire fraud.
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According to authorities, Hargrove and Jenkins were working as USPS employees when they allegedly stole checks -- including U.S. Treasury tax refund checks -- from the mail and provided them to Williams and Foreman, who reportedly sold them online via Telegram.
Williams is also facing money laundering charges for activities in October 2022 and for allegedly submitting fraudulent pandemic unemployment insurance claims amounting to millions of dollars between August and December 2020.
If convicted of conspiracy, all four people face up to 30 years in prison.
