Mona Lisa Tello, Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York (arrested Jan 2012) [faked jury duty documents]

TMP · Jan 12, 2012

Name: Mona Lisa Tello, Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York

Age: 61

School: High School of Graphic Communication Arts, New York, New York

Position: Bilingual science teacher

New York Daily News (10 Jan 2012): Poor spelling undoes Manhattan school teacher Mona Lisa Tello, who faked jury duty to get out of class: Agrees to pay hefty fine and resign from the High School of Graphic Communication Arts

New York Daily News said:

Give this Manhattan high school teacher an F for forgery — and spelling. Mona Lisa Tello was busted after she allegedly submitted a fake jury duty letter rife with bone-headed misspellings to get out of class for two weeks.
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DNAinfo (10 Jan 2012): Hell's Kitchen Teacher Arrested After Allegedly Forging Jury Documents

High School of Graphic Communication Arts teacher Mona Lisa Tello has been arrested after a Department of Education investigation found that she forged a spelling-error-filled fake jury duty document to take 15 paid days off in 2010 and 2011. Tello, 61, a bilingual science teacher who has been with the DOE since 1998, signed an agreement to resign on Jan. 15, and pay back $3,374.88 in salary she received for the supposed jury duty days.
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L.A. Times (10 Jan 2012): Forging jury summons? Bad idea. Misspelling it? Worse

L.A. Times said:

It was the spelling errors in the false court document that did the Manhattan high school teacher in, according to investigators. They told the Daily News the mangled words included "trial" spelled as "trail" and "manager" spelled "manger." The teacher, Mona Lisa Tello, was arrested Monday and faces three forgery counts. Tello denied wrongdoing to local media and told the online news site DNAInfo.com that she had fallen and needed to take time off last year to recuperate. When the principal of the school refused to accept her injury report, Tello said, she was "forced" to produce a court letter to excuse her absences. But the principal at the time, Jerod Resnick, tells a different story ...
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My Fox New York (11 July 2012): Teacher Accused Of Faking Jury Duty Notice

My Fox New York said:

Investigators say [Mona Lisa] Tello, a teacher assigned to The High School of Graphic Communication Arts, submitted the letter to the school, claiming it was issued by a court ... The letter apparently used "trail" for trial, "sited" for cited, and "manger" for manager. The address on the letter was wrong, the telephone and fax numbers were fake, and the bar code was fake.
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Huffington Post (11 July 2012): Mona Lisa Tello, New York Teacher, Accused Of Faking Jury Letter To Skip School (VIDEO)

Huffington Post said:

[Mona Lisa] Tello was arrested after the principal called the court and found out the actual letter was a deferral of jury duty, and she was charged with forgery in the second degree, criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
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New York Post (11 July 2012): Bad spell gets teach busted: Forged jury-duty letter loaded with typos

New York Post said:

Her spelling was so atrocious, it was downright criminal. A veteran Manhattan educator was busted for allegedly forging a jury-duty letter with so many errors that it raised red flags when she used it to excuse more than a dozen school absences. Mona Lisa Tello, 60, a bilingual-science teacher at the HS of Graphic Communication Arts in Hell’s Kitchen, was arrested this week on three felony counts of forgery related to her grade-A screw-up. Tello channeled an errant third-grader rather than a 13-year teaching veteran when she misspelled ... on fake letterhead ...
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Blast Magazine (11 July 2012): High School teacher arrested after forging jury duty note to get out of class

Blast Magazine said:

[School Principal] Resnick contacted a court official, who said [Mona Lisa] Tello’s jury duty had in fact been deferred. The principal then alerted Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon, who reported his findings to the Manhattan District Attorney. Condon recommended Tello be terminated ...
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Sun-Sentinel (11 July 2012): Bad spelling on bogus jury notice busts NY teacher

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