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Cop's Widow Given 2-Year Term For Defrauding Survivors of Shield

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/23/20

A police widow who parlayed more than $400,000 intended for the families of fallen NYPD officers into theater tickets, dental care and private-school tuition was sentenced Jan. 14 to two years in prison.

Lorraine Shanley, 69, who was the volunteer treasurer of Survivors of the Shield, a city-based nonprofit, from at least 2010 until 2017, pleaded guilty in September to one count of bank fraud and six counts of subscribing to false and fraudulent individual income-tax returns.

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