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| Corrections officers accused of putting in for fake sick time |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/16/2004 |
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Five New York prison officers at the Orleans Correctional Facility were charged with felonies last Wednesday and suspended without pay for sick leave abuses, state officials said. The officers were arrested after an investigation by the state police and the Department of Correctional Services, corrections spokesman James Flateau said. The men were accused of submitting false medical documentation to conceal abuse of sick leave between 1998 and 2003 at the prison, 45 miles northeast of Buffalo. Each was charged with filing a false instrument and grand larceny, both felonies. Flateau declined to say how much sick time or pay was involved. All five were arraigned last Wednesday before Albion Town Justice John Gavenda and released after posting $2,500 bond, he said. They are scheduled to reappear in court on Feb. 18. In September, the superintendent of Adirondack Correctional Facility was suspended without pay by the corrections department for allegedly falsifying his time cards. And three years ago, a state comptroller's audit examining the pay practices at that prison resulted in four guards being charged with illegally swapping shifts. They pleaded guilty to official misconduct and agreed to repay almost $141,000. |
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