18 U.S.C. § 1711

Misappropriation of postal funds

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Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, loans, uses, pledges, hypothecates, or converts to his own use, or deposits in any bank, or exchanges for other funds or property, except as authorized by law, any money or property coming into his hands or under his control in any manner, in the execution or under color of his office, employment, or service, whether or not the same shall be the money or property of the United States; or fails or refuses to remit to or deposit in the Treasury of the United States or in a designated depository, or to account for or turn over to the proper officer or agent, any such money or property, when required to do so by law or the regulations of the Postal Service, or upon demand or order of the Postal Service, either directly or through a duly authorized officer or agent, is guilty of embezzlement; and every such person, as well as every other person advising or knowingly participating therein, shall be fined under this title or in a sum equal to the amount or value of the money or property embezzled, whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount or value thereof does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

This section shall not prohibit any Postal Service officer or employee from depositing, under the direction of the Postal Service, in a national bank designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose, to his own credit as Postal Service officer or employee, any funds in his charge, nor prevent his negotiating drafts or other evidences of debt through such bank, or through United States disbursing officers, or otherwise, when instructed or required so to do by the Postal Service, for the purpose of remitting surplus funds from one post office to another.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 64 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1951–2025 · leading case: United States v. Janyce Carter

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United States v. Janyce Carter (1983) ca7 · cites it 7× “§ 371 , 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , and 18 U.S.C. §§ 2073 , 2.”

United States v. Deborah Jean Ross (2000) ca9 · cites it 4× “THOMAS, Circuit Judge: Deborah Jean Ross appeals from her conviction for misappropriation of postal funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 . We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.”

United States v. Martha West Greer (1998) ca5 · cites it 4× “DeMOSS, Circuit Judge: Martha West Greer (“Greer”), appeals her criminal conviction for embezzling funds from the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”) in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 . Greer contends (1) that there Is insufficient evidence to support'her conviction;…”

United States v. Grace Lorine Lester (1976) ca5 · cites it 5× “BROWN, Chief Judge: Postal employee, Grace Lester, was convicted by jury for converting to her own use, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1711 , 1 a $50 U.S. Postal Service Money Order which had come into her hands and under her control by virtue of her employment.”

United States v. Earline Brown (1983) ca7 · cites it 4× “Earline Brown, a former employee of the United States Postal Service, was convicted following a bench trial in the United States District Court on one count of an indictment alleging that she converted to her own use and failed to account for and turn over postal funds, in…”

United States v. Albert Alonzo (1982) ca5 · cites it 3× “POLITZ, Circuit Judge: Convicted by a jury of eleven counts of misappropriating postal service funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , 1 Albert Alonzo appeals, maintaining that the evidence was insufficient to support the convictions and that the trial court erred in its…”

United States v. Rodriguez (2001) ca5 · cites it 2× “Postal Service employee, was convicted by a jury of misappropriating postal funds, 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , and sentenced to five months imprisonment and two years supervised release.”

United States v. Maryann Romaszko (2001) ca2 · cites it 2× “On October 7,1999, a federal grand jury returned a five count indictment against Romaszko, charging her with three counts of misappropriating postal funds by converting them to her own use, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , one count of failing to remit postal funds when…”

United States v. Robert C. Morrison (1976) ca9 · cites it 2× “Morrison, convicted of misappropriating less than $100 in postal funds, a misdemeanor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , objects: (1) that the complaint was defective in not alleging a mens rea; (2) that the evidence was insufficient to convict; and (3) that there was a fatal…”

United States v. Ulysses Sympson Reed, Jr. (1991) ca11 · cites it 2× “” Defendant was later charged by criminal indictment with three violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , which prohibits misappropriation of postal funds.”

United States v. Algee (2010) ca6 “§ 1707 , one count of misappropriation of postal funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 , one count of making a false statement regarding the amount of money found in the vending machine in violation of 18 U.”

United States v. Weaver, Wallace (2002) cadc “Weaver of each count of a fourteen-count indictment charging misappropriation of postal funds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711 . The district court sentenced Weaver to concurrent terms of thirty months’ imprisonment on each count, and ordered him to pay restitution to the…”

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