{"id":296376,"date":"2026-07-15T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:01:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-former-rikers-officer-sentenced-for-false-injury-claims-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296376\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Former Rikers Officer Sentenced For False Injury Claims On The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A former Rikers Island corrections officer has been sentenced for falsifying claiming he was injured on duty collecting benefits for years. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The indictment says 43-year-old Todd Faustin actively sought out incidents to use force in order to steal money from the workers\u2019 compensation system.  <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cTodd Faustin lined his own pockets by exploiting one of the most sensitive interactions in our justice system: the use of physical force against prisoners,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.  <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Faustin was sentenced to 15 months in prison and one-year supervised release after his prison term. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Faustin was also ordered to pay $370,336.79 in restitution and $370,336.79 in forfeiture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Rikers Island corrections officer has been sentenced for falsifying claiming he was injured on duty collecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-296376","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296376","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=296376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}