Red Apple Swindle in Brooklyn
$2.7M Embezzled Through Schools
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — Joanna Fan and her husband Ziming Shen pled guilty last week in Brooklyn to program fraud arising from their theft of $2.7 million of federal funds designated for meals for students at the Red Apple child centers.
The defendants entered their pleas before the U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry at the United States Courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn. Each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.