WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a former mail carrier convicted of stealing more than $1.6 million in checks from D.C. customers.

Hachikosela Muchimba , 44, was convicted of mail theft, bank fraud and unlawful procurement of U.S. citizenship in March for a years-long scheme to steal checks from mailboxes along his route out of the Friendship Post Office in Northwest D.C. Investigators said Muchimba used the checks, which he altered and deposited into an account he controlled, to fund a “lavish lifestyle” of overseas travel and more than $100,000 spent at gentlemen’s clubs.

The scheme ran from at least December 2020 through March 2023. During that time, Muchimba, who immigrated to the U.S from Zambia, applied for and received natural

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