A former school employee who admitted she embezzled more than $485,000 worth of funds from the special needs facility in Queens she worked at until 2012 will only serve 60 days in jail, the Daily News has learned.
Disgraced bookkeeper Donna Joyce, 59, admitted to all of the 348 charges against her, including grand larceny in the second degree — a felony, on Monday.
Joyce, who served as a bookkeeper at the Martin De Porres School from 2001 to 2012, which is now located in Elmont, L.I., was accused of siphoning the large sum of money between 2007 and 2012 from the school to fund a lavish lifestyle and pay off her Macy’s, American Express and Citibank credit card bills.
The Queens District Attorney’s office asked for a sentence of one to three years if she was able to pay the money back, three to nine years if she wasn’t.
But Joyce handed over a check with the full amount Monday.
Judge Barry Kron did not return calls for comment about the sentence.
