BANGOR (AP) – An Augusta woman has been sentenced to six months in prison and must pay $45,000 in restitution for embezzling money from a Maine teachers’ union.
U.S. District Judge John Woodcock sentenced 46-year-old Catherine Crosier during a hearing Monday. Crosier pleaded guilty in November to taking the money between June 2002 and January 2004 when she worked for the 25,000-member Maine Education Association.
“What troubles me most is the nature of the employer you stole from,” Woodcock told Crosier. “It was as if you walked into a classroom, marched up to a teacher and grabbed the teacher’s pocket or pocketbook and took money out of it. Then, you went to the next classroom and the next classroom and did the same thing.”
Crosier’s prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
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