Contractor accused of bribing USPS exec with payments for his child's tuition

A government contractor is charged with bribing a U.S. Postal Service executive to give her company a series of lucrative contracts in exchange for paying college tuition for the executive’s daughter.

Barbara Murphy, owner of a North Carolina-based trucking company that was frequently contracted by USPS, was indicted recently for her alleged role in a scheme to defraud the postal service by offering a variety of kickbacks to a contracting officer in exchange for a fast-track to nine separate contracts.