The former treasurer of a Brooklyn parent teacher association is accused of stealing $100,000 from its coffers to pay for rent and fertility treatments, Kings County Charles J. Hynes said Tuesday.
Providence Hogan was charged with 22 counts of grand larceny, petit larceny and falsifying business records for embezzling money from the PTA fund at PS 29 in Cobble Hill, the DA said.
Hogan, who also owns a well-known downtown Brooklyn spa, the Providence Day Spa, allegedly wrote herself checks and paid business expenses and rent from the PTA funds.
The mother of one served as the PTA treasurer of PS 29 from 2006 to 2010. Investigators discovered $100,000 was missing from the fund in 2007 and 2008.
When confronted about the missing money by the PTA's board, she admitted her scheme, prosecutors said.
The board was able to track $82,000 of the missing money, which also went to pay for rent on her apartment, fertility treatments and, according to Hogan "to keep her family living in the lifestyle they were accustomed to," the DA said.
She allegedly concealed her crimes by falsifying documents. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison.
Hogan did not immedately return a request for comment.
