'You got them Trump licks?' Chicago brothers target COVID-19 stimulus checks in scheme to steal mail, feds say

CHICAGO — Akeem Kosoko and his postal carrier brother had allegedly been stealing people's personal funds from the U.S. mail for months when the federal government rolled out what undoubtedly seemed like the ultimate bonanza: "Trump checks."

That's how Kosoko referred to the federal "economic impact payments" — emblazoned with President Donald Trump's name — that were mailed to financially struggling taxpayers during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to criminal charges recently unsealed in Chicago's federal court.

In early May, the FBI was listening as Kosoko allegedly arranged a meeting on Chicago's West Side to sell several stimulus checks to an associate for $5,000.

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