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P.S. 29 PTA Embezzler Providence Hogan Jailed

The former Brooklyn public school official was taken into custody for failing to make scheduled payments.

A former Cobble Hill school PTA official was jailed on Wednesday after failing to make scheduled restitution payments, according to the New York Times.

Former P.S. 29 PTA treasurer Providence Hogan, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to embezzling $82,000 from the coveted Brooklyn elementary school, is short $17,700 in restitution, according to the Brooklyn D.A. and could face two to six years imprisonment if she does not make the full reimbursement by January 2014, the article stated.

Judge Suzanne Mondo said in 2011 that in order for Hogan to avoid trial and possible jail time she needed to "make the school whole." Hogan's attorney Stephen Flamhaft met with Mondo and they came to the agreement on how Hogan would may repayments.

"If you fail to make a payment, I will order a warrant for your arrest," she said. "I will not accept any excuses." 

Mondo made good on that threat Wednesday when she ordered Hogan back into custody.

The stolen money was originally used by Hogan to cover fertility treatments, rent and to fund her struggling Boerum Hill day spa, which has since closed.

But after her plea, she expressed what many considered a sincere apology, describing her actions as "spiritually bereft." Since then, Flamhaft said his client has faced a number of setbacks in her mission toward redemption and called her a "downtrodden woman."

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