United Airlines, the top carrier at Newark Liberty International Airport, is dealing with another federal probe, the company disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing.
The U.S. Justice Department wants the airline to provide documents and oral testimony related to the carrier’s mail-hauling contracts with the U.S. Postal Service, the carrier said Thursday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The airline “cannot predict what action, if any, might be taken” as a result of the probe, Chicago-based United said in the filing.
“We received and have responded to a civil investigative demand from the Department of Justice on compliance with international mail-scanning requirements under our USPS contracts,” United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said Friday in an emailed statement. “We believe the DOJ inquiry is industrywide,” she said. The airline “will continue to work with DOJ,” and “we are reviewing our mail-scanning practices to ensure compliance,” she said.
The airline also said in the filing that United cooperating with an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and a related investigation by the SEC, into certain questionable dealings the airline had with officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. That investigation led to the resignation last year of former United CEO Jeff Smisek and two other airline officials.
The Port Authority is United’s landlord at the Newark airport.
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US DOJ starts probe into United Airline USPS contract
