Eduardo Trinidad was the last of a trio of guards to cop to a single count of federal program fraud, as alleged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
Trinidad allegedly raked in $140,000 while faking an injury from June 2021 to November 2022, according to prosecutors.
But otherwise, Investigators found, Trinidad would do housework, go bowling and travel to the Dominican Republic and Florida with his fiancee, Monica Coaxum, a fellow correction officer who pleaded guilty to the same charge in February. Trinidad was the last guards to cop to a single count of federal program fraud.A third officer, Steven Cange, also siphoned off $139,000 in faulty sick pay while on leave from March 2021 to November 2022 and copped to the same count, according to prosecutors.
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