Overview
- On Thursday, Murielle Misczak pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to wire fraud for taking roughly $2.75–2.8 million from a Park Slope German-immersion daycare.
- Prosecutors say Misczak, who was hired in 2013 and promoted to director in 2020, diverted tuition payments from January 2022 through October 2025 by directing them into accounts she controlled.
- The government’s filings say she concealed the theft by deleting and altering entries in the daycare’s accounting system so the missing funds did not show up in internal records.
- Officials trace more than $600,000 of the stolen money to travel and entertainment and over $350,000 to professional wrestling events; court papers list restitution of $2,805,871 and a statutory maximum prison term of 20 years.
- The scheme was uncovered in October 2025, the daycare’s principal reportedly used personal savings to cover payroll shortfalls, and the EDNY and FBI continue to press the criminal case with sentencing still pending.