Long Island mom used $50K in PTA funds to buy tickets, shop at Best Buy: DA

Fuente: New York Post

A Long Island mom and retired cop stole more than $50,000 in PTA dough for a three-year spending spree on tickets, hotels and other luxuries, prosecutors said. Retired NYPD transit bureau cop Jodi Scarlatos, 43, was busted after she used a debit card she got her paws on as treasurer of the Jericho Elementary School PTA coffers for personal purchases at Best Buy, Amazon, Verizon Wireless and on Ticketmaster, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. Her scheme was only exposed after three years, when she transferred control of the PTA account to other members, officials said.