TSA Agent Charged With Stealing $22k Check Mailed to NYC Defense Lawyer

A Transportation Security Administration agent from the Bronx stole a nearly $23,000 government paycheck sent to a defense lawyer who represented an indigent client, federal prosecutors allege.

TSA agent Diamonique Richardson and an accomplice, Cinque Lipscomb, are the latest suspects accused of stealing five- and six-figure U.S. Treasury checks sent by mail to lawyers appointed to federal defendants who can’t afford attorneys.

Richardson and Lipscomb took advantage of a frustrating technicality in federal law that required the lawyer’s paychecks to be sent out in the mail instead of by direct deposit.

Read the rest of the story at Daily News, here.

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