Ex-USPS Worker’s Mail Interference Conviction Survives Appeal

A USPS employee lost her appeal Tuesday to undo the convictions for delaying or destroying mail after the Tenth Circuit said the government’s evidence was sufficient to prove she acted “unlawfully.”

Diana Molyneux was an express mail clerk working at a United States Postal Service processing and distribution center in Salt Lake City, Utah, when prosecutors say she hid or destroyed United States Citizenship and Immigration Services mailers destined for Reno, Nev.

She appealed her 2023 convictions claiming the government failed to prove that she acted “unlawfully,” one of the elements of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 1703.