LOS ANGELES—Two United States Postal Service employees pleaded guilty May 24 in Los Angeles to federal criminal charges accusing them of unlawfully buying and cashing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of postal money orders with unemployment benefits fraudulently obtained with false claims of COVID-related job losses. Christian Jeremyah James, 31, of South Los Angeles, who worked in the Culver City Main Post Office, and Armand Caleb Legardy, 32, of Inglewood, who worked in the La Tijera Post Office on Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles, each pleaded guilty in separate hearings to one count of use of unauthorized access devices, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. From August 2020 to February, James and Legardy used debit cards that the California Employment Development Department had issued to other people for unemployment insurance benefits—cards that were obtained by other unidentified individuals using stolen identities and false information, according to their plea …