A Long Island woman faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly stealing almost $500,000 from a Queens special-needs school to pay her credit card bills.
Donna Joyce was a bookkeeper at the Martin De Porres School for 11 years until a boss noticed “irregularities” with their finances.
From January 2007 to August 2012, Joyce allegedly used more than $485,000 in school funds to pay her Macy’s, American Express and Citibank bills for everything from items from Baskin Robbins ice cream to Kenneth Cole clothing and shopping sprees at Sears and Target.
Joyce, 58, of Farmingdale, was fired in 2012 and was charged on Thursday with grand larceny and falsifying business records.