A second postal worker pleaded guilty Monday in a huge government check-cashing scheme that prosecutors said cost taxpayers millions.

Postal supervisor Gerald Eason, 47 and one of his employees, 49-year old Deborah Fambro-Echols, admit they stole more than $3 million worth of U.S. Treasury checks mailed by the government thousands of people in the metro area, then worked with brokers who bought the checks for 50-percent of face value.

"Then they (the brokers) would go out and work with even another level of conspirators who were check cashers" who fanned across the metro area, many using fake identification, to cash the checks at banks and local businesses.

Others who have pleaded guilty in the scheme include , Wendy Frasier, 35, and Daralyn M. Weaver, 31, both of Atlanta, Jabril O. McKee, 25, of Fairburn and Ohmar D. Braden, 36, of Lithonia.

McClain said this is the kind of scheme that has made Georgia number three in the nation when it comes to the theft of government checks. It was the first target of a new 14-agency task force assembled to combat such thefts, he said.