Shalisha Jackson, 37, of Short Hills, N.J., allegedly stole funds from Brooklyn New School and Madiba Prep Middle School to pay for hotel stays, liquor store purchases and a car.<\/p>\n
A paraprofessional and director of an after-school program at two Brooklyn schools was\u00a0indicted Monday on charges that she stole more than $111,000 over a six-year period.<\/p>\n
Defendant Shalisha Jackson, 37, of Short Hills, N.J., was charged with second-degree grand larceny, third-degree grand larceny, petit larceny, second-degree forgery and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Jackson allegedly began working for the New York City Department of Education in 2008 and served as the director of the after-school program at P.S. 146, also known as the Brooklyn New School, between 2016 and 2024. In that role, she was allegedly entrusted with control of the after-school program\u2019s bank account, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson allegedly wrote 153 checks to herself from the after-school program account totaling approximately $77,000 between June 4, 2018 and October 9, 2024, the DA’s Office said.<\/p>\n
In addition, Jackson allegedly deposited approximately 104 checks and Zelle payments from parents and school vendors totaling approximately $33,000 that were intended for the after-school program into her personal bank account, according to Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Jackson allegedly used the funds for hotel stays, liquor store purchases, payments to a real estate company specializing in luxury properties, auto finance payments and online purchases, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSchool funds are entrusted to support students, families, and educational programs \u2014not to be misappropriated for personal benefit,”\u00a0Special Commissioner of Investigation for the NYC School District Anastasia Coleman said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The DA’s Office also said Jackson allegedly deposited two checks belonging to Madiba Prep Middle School into her personal checking account, including a $714 check dated June 9, 2022 and a $320 check dated June 11, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor more than six years, this defendant allegedly used her position of trust to systematically steal money meant to support the education and well-being of Brooklyn children,” Gonzalez said. “We will continue to hold accountable those who opt to line their pockets with money meant to enrich our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The defendant was released without bail and ordered to return to court on August 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shalisha Jackson, 37, of Short Hills, N.J., allegedly stole funds from Brooklyn New School and Madiba Prep Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,105892],"class_list":["post-275223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shalisha-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}