Going Postal: Post Office Worker Sues Colleagues, Claims Defamation of Character

A worker from the Bolingbrook post office sued four colleagues he claims disparaged him with “libelous comparisons” to violent people.

Christopher A. Johnson filed his defamation of character lawsuit against Roxanne McCarville, Steven Gomoll, Sylvia Salazar-Moore and Patrice Bobo in Will County court.

Johnson and the people he sued all work at the Bolingbrook post office, according to the lawsuit.

Johnson said his coworkers “compared (him) to a ‘husband on the news nightly who killed his family and then himself,’” and also “compared (him) to other individuals who within the past, committed violent acts within the United States Postal Service.”

All of this allegedly happened on Aug. 27. Before that, Johnson “had an excellent standing relationship with the United States Postal Service, as well as his respective community,” the suit said, but the “defamatory statements caused much damage,” including Johnson’s “eventual resignation as shop local steward in Lemont,” among other things.

Johnson wants $50,000. He did not return a call for comment.

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