A complaint that a Roxbury postal worker allegedly dumped about 300 pieces of mail in support of Republican Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) into a supermarket dumpster in Pennsylvania in the fall of 2024 has been sent to federal prosecutors in New Jersey.
“The OIG completed the investigation and referred the case to the United States Attorney’s Office,” said Jonathan Jimenez, the assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.
In 2024, the New Jersey Globe reported that a woman in a USPS uniform was observed pulling up next to a dumpster at a Shop-Rite in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, taking several postal bins out of the trunk of her car, and throwing them into the dumpster before driving off.
The incident was captured on the supermarket’s surveillance camera. The recording was turned over to USPS investigators and obtained by the New Jersey Globe.
The pro-Kean mailers, sent by an independent expenditure committee connected to the national GOP, were meant for voters in Succasunna, part of Roxbury Township in Morris County, and one of the most heavily Republican municipalities in New Jersey’s 7th district.
“We saw her dump it,” a security company official working for the supermarket told the New Jersey Globe.
A security official is heard saying on the video saying, “We have a license plate. She has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the mail’s from Jersey.”
The incident occurred in October 2024. It’s not immediately clear if the same postal employee had dumped other trays of mail into other dumpsters along the way.
Kean was locked in a close race with Democrat Sue Altman that could determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he was disturbed by the allegations.
Xavier Hernandez, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, told the New Jersey Globe that the matter was referred to the inspector general. A postal employee said at the time that the woman had been suspended.
In 2020, Nicholas Beuchene, a 26-year-old letter carrier from Kearny, pleaded guilty to charges that he disposed of a large quantity of mail, including roughly 200 vote-by-mail ballots sent to West Orange, into a dumpster in North Arlington.