Officials: North Haven woman, 76, stole almost $42k in adoption fraud
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Geraldine Leak, 76, of North HavenContributed /Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice.
Investigators charged a North Haven woman with stealing nearly $42,000 in adoption subsidies, the state’s Division of Criminal Justice said.
Geraldine Leak, 76, was charged with first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community. She was arrested Friday by inspectors from the Statewide Prosecution Bureau of the Chief State s Attorney s Office, according to the DCJ.
Authorities allege that from June 2016 until August 2019, Leak was given $41,734.83 in subsidies from the state’s Department of Children and Families, the DCJ said.
Leak was not entitled to receive the payments from DCF because the agency had removed a child from her care in May 2016, according to authorities.