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STATEN ISLAND---A paramedic employed by the New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Service has been arrested for submitting eight forged medical notes to the FDNY to excuse her absences from work.
Keisha Brockington, 31, of Staten Island, an EMS employee since October 1999, who receives an annual salary of $47,126, was arrested and charged with second degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, first degree tampering with public records, official misconduct and other crimes.If convicted, Brockington faces up to seven years in prison.
During 2003 and 2005 at the EMS station on East 149th Street in the Bronx, Brockington gave her supervisor eight completed FDNY Civilian Medical Documentation Forms for days on which she claimed to have been unable to work because of illness. Portions of the forms supposedly were completed and signed by Brockington's doctors, verifying that Brockington was sick and had visited her doctors' office on six dates when she missed work. An investigation by the New York City Department of Investigation revealed that Brockington was allegedly not at the doctors' office on those days and that the doctors' written diagnoses and signatures were allegedly forged.
Brockington's was the second arrest in the past month of an EMS employee for submitting forged medical notes. In last May, DOI announced that emergency medical technician Robert Brown, 23, of New Windsor, an EMS employee since January 2005, salary $31,775, was arrested and charged with several misdemeanors for submitting two forged medical documentation forms to his supervisor in Manhattan. 6-22-06
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