Colorado USPS Transportation Network Specialist pleads guilty to accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for awarding trucking contracts

"... In one case, Rho received nearly $300,000 in kickbacks. In another, Rho met a representative of a trucking company in a parking lot several times to receive cash. The case has drawn additional scrutiny due to connections to a deadly 2022 crash in Weld County, where a postal service contractor's truck killed a family of five. While no allegations link Rho to bribery involving the company responsible for that crash, court documents reveal Rho...Investigators determined the truck did not have working brakes or proper insurance, and the driver did not have a valid license.

Rho later represented the Postal Service during a deposition related to the lawsuit over the fatal collision. Family members of the crash victims told 9NEWS they were unaware of Rho's connection to their case"    

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House seeks to crack down on Postal Service trucking contractors

House seeks to crack down on Postal Service trucking contractors

"...Penalties in legislation passed Monday include contract suspension, termination...would require the Postal Service to maintain an internal database of such reports and publish an annual summary of information related to the reports. The legislation, introduced in March by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is in response to investigations of the Postal Service’s safety records involving its long-haul contract carriers and a government watchdog report published in February revealing lax oversight of its partner trucking companies, brokers and drivers."    

This Article is From: www.freightwaves.com


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