Brickbat: Gonna Find Out Who's Naughty or Nice

Three employees of the U.S. Postal Service in New York City have been charged with using the post office's Operation Santa program to enrich themselves. Under that program, the post office puts letters to Santa from needy children in an area where customers can "adopt" them and buy Christmas presents that the post office delivers to the children. But prosecutors say the three forged letters and when people brought in presents for those non-existent children, they kept them. Two of the three sometimes skipped forging the letters and just replaced the addresses of children with their own.
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From the NYT comments:
Laura Hunt
here there and everywhere June 18, 2015
There is a special circle in Dante's hell awaiting these people. How low can you go? Oh t be a civil servant do as little work as possible and reap large rewards. Where can I sign up?
That sounds familiar, no? Go get 'em DOJ.
Oh, but these are only postal workers, not judges.
The high and mighty appointees don't give a rat's ass about the rank and file bureaucrats one way or another.
Let's hope Dante keeps that in mind.
Laura Hunt probably believes corruption in government is rare. She probably also believes that it's rare for the government to victimize the poor. Why, her favorite politicians talk frequently about fighting for working families.
Apparently the bastards stole the alt text, too.
Naw, it's been confiscated as evidence.
Alt-Text gag order?
Jesus is rolling over in His grave right now.
*Narrows gaze*
*makes "watching you" gesture*
HATE CRIME!