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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Revetti announced yesterday that a Hacienda Heights, California resident pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and got sentenced to nine months in jail, followed by three years of federal supervised release on his conviction. Forty-three-year-old Ting Hong Yeung pleaded guilty on Thursday for his actions. According to information presented to the Court, from in and around August 2018 through in and around June 2020, Yeung, using various corporate entities, submitted or caused to be submitted over 6,000 fraudulent claim requests for lost or damaged ground package shipments that were not actually lost or damaged. Subsequently, Yeung got payments of settlement that were related to these claim submissions that are fraudulent for shipments that were lost or damaged.