Former Postal Employees File $110 Million Civil Lawsuit Against US Postal Service, Postal Inspection Service, and SBC Communications

Former U.S. Postal employees filed a $110 million civil suit in the United States District Court against the US Postal Service, Postal Inspection Service and SBC Communications. Plaintiffs, Jen Flores and Kristi Glinka, claim United States Constitutional violations and deliberate and intentional psychological abuse.

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Former Postal Employees File $110 Million Civil Lawsuit Against US Postal Service, Postal Inspection Service, and SBC Communications

San Diego, CA -- May 22, 2002 -- Former U.S. Postal employees filed a $110 million civil suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California against the US Postal Service, Postal Inspection Service and SBC Communications. Plaintiffs, Jen Flores and Kristi Glinka, claim United States Constitutional violations and deliberate and intentional psychological abuse that led to stalking, surveillance, incessant telephone harassment, chasing from state to state, illegal wiretaps and death threats to their children by the named Defendants.

In April 2000 Kristi Glinka of Toledo, Ohio received a break into her home by 13 men with guns drawn under the guise of drugs screaming, This is f*cking
Federal! This is FB!." They left her home, but not until they took a photo of her child and confiscated her Project One Voice papers. A vehicle she identified through its license plate number for which an FBI agent stated he could find no record" of such vehicle chased her in November 2000. She then located the vehicle parked in the US Postal Service parking lot where postal inspectors parked their cars.

Both women organized the Project One Voice rally in September 2000 in which people from different states gathered before Postal headquarters in Washington DC to oppose sex abuse, rape, inhumane treatment and discrimination in their workplace. The National Organization for Women joined with support and in December 2000 named the US Postal Service, merchants of shame".

After the rally attendees and founders of Project One Voice received retaliation. On January 25, 2001 a telephone repair man for my local phone company placed a bug into my home disguised as a telephone jack, and carried it into my home in an opened plastic five pound bag. Upon contact, the phone company said there was no record of this repair and refused to show repair records. Upon being questioned the repairman said, Martin Luther Kings lines were wired, but he was for civil rights, not like yall, anti-government.", said Jen Flores-Sloan, the publisher, and editor of Project One Voice website. The same abuse that takes postal workers to suicide and workplace violence followed us into civilian life for opposing discrimination, and contacting our members of Congress and Senate. We were told to keep our mouths shut, and my elderly mother received incessant telephone harassment that led to her stroke in February 2001."

Kristi Glinkas three-year-old daughter received an email directly addressed to her and as Kristi says, It stated that her time was short and that to be sure to carry plenty of cameras and film and fight fire with photo". Krisit also said, While our nation was under attack we were being telephoned by law enforcement officers whose zealous incessant harassment left their lines opened revealing a postal entity and covert conversations by a man named Bob" and Shannon". The latter is the first name of the FBI agent who refused my federal civil rights complaint. The United Nations is suing the Postal Service and its Inspection Service so why is it so incredible that we should be stalked, surveilled and our children threatened with death if we spoke out?"

Both women have collected evidence of the covert bug, videotapes, recorded messages of harassment and death threats in federal law enforcement code. Jen Flores-Sloan said, All we did was ask the Postal Service to keep their supervisors pants up and maybe the postal rates would come down. Those who abuse their federal power threaten our lives and that of our children. Complaints have also come in from other women and men alleging postal inspector abuse for civil rights retaliation."

Contact: projectonevoice@justice.com

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