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Briana Garland, age 30, of Uniondale, was sentenced to two years of probation in federal court in Albany on Thursday, Feb. 2. It followed her guilty plea to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Federal prosecutors said Garland submitted a false unemployment insurance claim to the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) in the name of Reginald Thornton, an inmate at Bare Hill prison in Franklin County.
As part of her sentencing, a federal judge also ordered her to pay $19,580 in restitution to the state of New York.
Garland is the fourth person to be sentenced for pandemic-related schemes involving prisoners at Bare Hill, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District.
Thornton previously pleaded guilty to taking part in two other unemployment insurance fraud conspiracies. He was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison, which he will serve after his state prison term ends.
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