A former employee of the U.S. Postal Service has been sentenced in a Boston federal court for embezzling over $18,000. Christine Hedges, aged 47 and residing in Brockton, received a sentence of three years probation from U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs. Additionally, she has been ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture amounting to $18,939.58.
Hedges had pleaded guilty in March 2025 to one count of theft of government money following her indictment by a federal grand jury earlier that month.
Employed by USPS since around 2020, Hedges served as a Lead Sales & Service Associate in Brockton during the last year of her tenure. Between October 2021 and August 2023, she executed a scheme to misappropriate USPS funds for personal use. Her method involved generating no-fee money orders without customer presence or request at her service window and stealing cash from her workstation, which she sometimes replaced with fraudulent money orders.
Throughout this period, Hedges created approximately 64 fake no-fee money orders; among them, 11 were issued to either her boyfriend or family members. Surveillance footage captured between August 1 and August 14, 2023, revealed Hedges removing cash from her drawer on at least one occasion and placing it into her pocket.
The total sum stolen by Hedges amounted to roughly $18,939 in postal funds.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Leah B. Foley alongside Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s Northeast Area Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristina E. Barclay from the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit.
