Teacher busted in wage scam, due to own spelling errors

Mona Lisa Tello, a-61-year-old former teacher at a Manhattan graphic arts public school, has been accused of faking a jury summons in order to get paid for absences over the course of several months.

Tello had apparently submitted the jury summons letter to school officials, saying it was issued by the Superior Court of New Jersey.

However the investigation started when the principal suspected something wasn't right, and tallied the days Tello claims she missed for jury duty:

"In the investigation, it was determined that Tello had told the payroll department that absences on Sept. 16, 2010, Oct. 19,2010, Nov. 30,2010, Dec. 7 and 8, 2010, Jan. 21, 2011, Feb. 10 and 11, 2011, May 4, 11, 17, 18, 26, 27 and 31, 2011 were all due to jury duty."

The cause of the suspicion?

The "court summons" had misspelled "trial" as "trail," "cited" as "sited," and "manager" as "manger."

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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