"On Nov. 6, Robert Weisenbach arrived at his home to find an unknown man "yelling belligerently" at him.
The man held a cell phone in one hand and kept his other hand tucked into a coat pocket. Frightened, Weisenbach jumped into a vehicle and called his supervisors at the U.S. Postal Service. A few minutes later, a Postal Service investigator and a neighbor who had overheard the commotion — a Pennsylvania State Police trooper — were on the scene, ordering the trespasser to leave. He wouldn't.
Millcreek Township police showed up, exited their cruisers with guns drawn, and apprehended the man.
It's just one of the incidents that Weisenbach, Erie's postmaster, points to in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Erie County Common Pleas Court against U.S. Postal Service employee Richard Hopkins, the right-wing activist group Project Veritas and its founder James O'Keefe for claiming in the days following the Nov. 3 presidential election that Weisenbach
was part of a plot to tamper with ballots in order to help then-candidate Joe
Biden steal the election from then-President Donald Trump.
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