A former employee of the U.S. Postal Service was sentenced in a Boston federal court for embezzling over $18,000. Christine Hedges, aged 47 from Brockton, received a sentence of three years probation from U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs. Additionally, she was ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture totaling $18,939.58.
Hedges had pleaded guilty in March 2025 to one count of theft of government money after being indicted by a federal grand jury earlier that month.
Hedges began her employment with USPS around 2020 and served as a Lead Sales & Service Associate in Brockton during her last year. Between October 2021 and August 2023, she engaged in a scheme to misappropriate USPS funds for personal use by generating no-fee money orders without customer presence or request at her service window. She also stole cash from her workstation and attempted to cover up these actions by replacing the cash with fraudulent money orders.
During this period, Hedges produced approximately 64 fake no-fee money orders, including 11 directed to her boyfriend or family member. Surveillance footage from early August 2023 showed Hedges taking cash from her drawer and placing it into her pocket on at least one occasion.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and 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 of the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit.
