Amanda Theodosy-Nash’s lawyer argued it would be a miscarriage of justice to jail her and that she wasn’t really involved in a conspiracy, prompting the judge to interrupt and ask why s…
OAKLAND — A woman who worked for both the Pittsburg and Santa Clara police departments has been ordered to spend 90 days in federal prison for her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain pay bumps.
“I took an oath and I broke that promise by cheating,” Theodosy-Nash said in court Tuesday. “One shortcut cost me over 12 years of hard work.” All six defendants paid Berhan’s fiancée to take online courses and receive bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice, which made them eligible for reward programs offered to Antioch and Pittsburg employees who obtained her education. Theodosy-Nash later put on her application to be a Santa Clara officer that she had a bachelor’s degree, even though it was the result of fraud, prosecutors said.
Theodosy-Nash’s acceptance of responsibility came right after her lawyer, Paul Goyette, downplayed her crimes and said that jailing her would serve “no interest in justice whatsoever.” Goyette added that Theodosy-Nash never actually entered into a criminal conspiracy, prompting White to interrupt and ask him if his client wished to withdraw her guilty plea on conspiracy charge.
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