A federal judge revoked the U.S. citizenship Wednesday of a former postal worker convicted of stealing more than $1.6 million in checks from the mailboxes of D.C. residents.

Hachikosela Muchimba , 45, was convicted of mail theft, bank fraud and unlawful procurement of U.S. citizenship in March for a years-long scheme beginning in late 2020 to steal checks from mailboxes along his route out of the Friendship Post Office in Northwest D.C. Muchimba applied for naturalization in September 2021. By the time he took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in May 2022, Muchimba had stolen more than $450,000 from postal customers.

“This country gave a lot to you and all immigrants,” said U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, whose own parents were Cuban émigrés. “Certainly my family has ben

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