HARTFORD — A New York man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a scheme in which he used stolen identities and empty bank accounts to purchase thousands of dollars in stamps from post offices in Connecticut and other states, officials say.
In a release, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Sullivan said Ezekiel Bailey, a 33-year-old from Brooklyn, was sentenced in federal court in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment and one year of supervised release.
Sullivan said the U.S Postal Inspection Service began an investigation after receiving reports that an individual had been passing, and attempting to pass, bad checks to purchase thousands of dollars in postage stamps from U.S. post offices in Connecticut and surrounding states…