NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn woman who pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with various pandemic-era relief schemes was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation and $650,000 in penalties.
Prosecutors said Chanette Lewis, 32, carried out some of the schemes by leveraging her job at a call center, part of a New York program meant to provide health care workers with isolation rooms in hotels.
They said she provided free hotel rooms to people she knew weren’t eligible health care workers or COVID-19 patients, including herself.
I thank New York City Emergency Management for reporting this matter," New York Department of Investigation Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber said in a statement.
Lewis was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to forfeit $290,000 and pay another $360,000 in penalties.
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