Two Riverside County Brothers Sentenced to Prison for $2.1 Million Mail Insurance Scam that Defrauded United States Postal Service

LOS ANGELES – Two Temecula brothers were sentenced today to federal prison for defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) out of more than $2.1 million by filing thousands of fraudulent Priority Mail insurance claims.
Anwer Fareed Alam, 36, and Yousofzay Fahim Alam, 34, each were sentenced to 27 months in prison by United States District Judge Wesley L. Hsu, who also ordered them to jointly pay $2,135,739 in restitution.

Both Alam brothers pleaded guilty on February 16 to one count of mail fraud.

Read the entire press release.  US Department of Justice, Central District of California, November 1, 2024