A retired Philadelphia policeman who worked as a U.S. Mint officer was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for stealing $1 coins worth $2.3 million and selling them to a California distributor, officials said.
William Gray, 65, of North Wildwood, shipped the coins from a post office in Rio Grande, N.J., and a FedEx site in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., between 1996 and 2011, while employed at the mint in Philadelphia, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. Gray had previously pleaded guilty to theft of government property and failing to pay about $801,000 in taxes from the sales.
