{"id":348936,"date":"2026-09-17T03:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348936\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:10:29","slug":"news-12-bronx-former-nyc-corrections-officer-from-freeport-sentenced-for-illegally-collecting-military-leave-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348936\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Former Nyc Corrections Officer From Freeport Sentenced For Illegally Collecting Military Leave Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A former New York City Department of Correction officer from Freeport has been sentenced to two years\u2019 probation and ordered to pay more than $80,000 in restitution for fraudulently collecting military leave pay.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Leah Mathieu, 35, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in April.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say she was released from state active duty with the New York Naval Militia for the unauthorized use of a government vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She did not inform the DOC of her release. Instead, prosecutors say she falsely claimed she would not be at work because she was continuing active duty pursuant to a new set of orders that she had forged.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The offense occurred between December 2022 to March 2024, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former New York City Department of Correction officer from Freeport has been sentenced to two years\u2019 probation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-348936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348936","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=348936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}