USPS - Feds: Postal supervisors bribed with lap dances

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Feds: Postal supervisors bribed with lap dances, erectile dysfunction drugs and more

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Lap dances, erectile dysfunction drugs, cash and cars were the lures used to illegally steer more than $13 million in repair work on U.S. postal vehicles to an unnamed contractor, federal officials charged in indictments that were revealed Thursday.

The indictments, issued Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Detroit, alleged five postal supervisors in Michigan and Ohio pushed the work to the contractor, who has operations in both states.

According to the charges, the supervisors had the authority to decide whether vehicle work should be handled by postal employees or jobbed out to private firms. The five took money and other gifts from the contractor to get the work, the charges say.

Charged were Denny Robinson, 35, and Bruce Plumb, 61, both of Brownstown Township; Gregory Gorski, 47, of Canton; Jeffery Adams, 50, of Copley, Ohio, and Mancer Holmes, 49, of Farmington Hills.

All five were released on personal no-cash bonds after appearances Thursday in U.S. District Court. The indictments charge that:

• Plumb accepted thousands of dollars in drinks and lap dances at a local strip club, got a $3,000 paver patio installed in his backyard and the contractor treated Plumb to visits from a prostitute and erectile dysfunction pills. He also got more than $8,000 in work done on a grandson's truck.

• Adams got more than $60,000 in cash, a 1997 Chevrolet Malibu; thousands of dollars in car parts and service; a $40,000 loan for the purchase of a condominium; tickets to Lions, Tigers, Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers games; golf outings, and a $4,000 heating and cooling unit for his home.

• Robinson took more than $65,000 in cash, thousands of dollars in work on cars, a 2001 Chrysler minivan and a custom-modified, high-performance Ford Pinto.

• Holmes got more than $6,000 in cash.

• Gorski took $2,000 in cash; a 1999 Pontiac minivan; Pistons, Lions, and University of Michigan football tickets; and thousands of dollars in gift cards.

All of the men were charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, a 15-year felony.

The indictments also seek forfeiture of the alleged illegal payments.

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Detroit— A U.S. Postal Service manager now accused of accepting bribes, free dates with a hooker and erectile dysfunction pills from a contractor was shot in a 1993 post office rampage — and blamed by some co-workers for the attack.

Brownstown Township resident Bruce Plumb's ties to the 1993 shooting — one in a string of incidents nationwide that helped coin the phrase "going postal" — surfaced Friday, one day after Plumb was arraigned on bribery charges in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

Plumb, 61, who was mocked by underlings as one of the office's "worst bosses of the month" before the shooting, survived the Dearborn Post Office shooting that left two dead and two wounded.

Plumb was among five postal supervisors indicted Wednesday and accused of accepting cash, tickets to major sporting events and prostitutes in exchange for repairing Postal Service vehicles.

"It'll all come out in the wash," Plumb told The Detroit News on Friday. Plumb declined further comment.

The charges come 18 years after Plumb was shot in the back by a subordinate, Lawrence Jasion. Jasion killed mechanic Gary Montes, then wounded Sandy Brandstatter before committing suicide.

Federal court records indicate Plumb went through a prolonged legal battle with the Postal Service following the shooting and endured accusations by co-workers that he provoked the violence.

Union officials at the time said Plumb was the subject of numerous grievances and they asked that he not be returned to his job. Plumb launched a legal battle against the postmaster general following the 1993 shooting. He unsuccessfully sued the postmaster general and the Postal Service in 2004 for discrimination after he was denied a promotion.

Federal court records indicate Plumb's workplace problems continued in the days after the shooting.

Plumb is accused of conspiring to accept bribes from February 2009 until October 2010. During that time, he was acting manager of the Postal Service's vehicle maintenance facility in Detroit, but has since retired

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Wow. It's stories like these that make me proud to be an American. And the firm allegedly involved is still doing business with the USPS...

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