Former Boston Police Clerk Marilyn Golisano Gets 3 Months In Prison For Overtime Fraud
BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston Police Department clerk who according to prosecutors sometimes forged her supervisor's signature to inflate her overtime pay by nearly $30,000 over two years has been sentenced to three months in prison.
Marilyn Golisano, 68, was also sentenced Monday to three years of probation following her time behind bars, the first three months of which must be spent in home confinement, and was ordered to pay full restitution to the city, federal prosecutors said.
Golisano, who handled the overtime paperwork for a detective unit, submitted dozens of fraudulent overtime claims in 2017 and 2018, some of which included the forged signature of her supervisor, prosecutors said.
Although her work was done primarily on the computer, she never logged into the department's computer system during many of the overtime shifts she claimed to have worked, and phone records sometimes showed she was miles away when she was supposed to be in Boston, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Boston.
She pleaded guilty in September to embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds and wire fraud.
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