Wire Fraud, Stolen Valor Vet Awarded Jail
Sentenced to a year and a day
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor
By Nick Mordowanec
A U.S. Army veteran will serve a year behind bars for wire fraud and stolen valor charges.
Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, of Newburgh, New York, previously made false public claims about assisting homeless veterans. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti sentenced her to 12 months and one day in prison for claims of being a Purple Heart recipient as well as for a years-long scheme to defraud military veterans’ charities.
She was indicted by the federal government in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and forging a military discharge certificate.
In March 2025 she pleaded guilty to the charges, which Briccetti at sentencing in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) called “appalling” and “disrespectful to [her] fellow veterans.”
“Sharon Toney-Finch falsely claimed to be a Purple Heart recipient and used her foundation to defraud donors and others induced by that lie,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton of SDNY in a statement. “Let today’s sentence reaffirm that fraud built on lies about service and sacrifice will carry a heavy price.”
In addition to the prison term, Toney-Finch was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $84,000 in restitution and $85,000 in forfeiture.
The stolen funds went to her BMW, travel, and other personal expenses including a gym membership.
*cough*
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She’s ready to run for office.
She’s ready to waddle for office.
Fixed it for you.
Definitely fits the criteria for a dem politician either in NY or Il.
Enjoy your well-deserved new status as a felon, Ms. Toney-Fitch.
Did she save the receipt for that gym membership, because it looks like it didn’t work.
Peeps like Finch are birds of a feather that stick together, do those ballons come with strings.. I can’t remember what the alert I will get about the balloons… Am Leaving now for my final radiation zapping on the upper lip. ZAP ZAP ZAP and the DOC ain’t no QUACK.
Bitch.
That is all.
The gym membership wasn’t helping much
😀😛😄🤪😅😂
She’s got tits you could put a coffee cup on.
And not in a fun way.
She ain’t been presecuted enuff.
FU for doing this in the shadow of a hero, Newburgh’s own SSG Santiago Frias.
BMW, huh?
I live 3 miles from an installation and every day, to and from work, I count how many BMWs I see with DV plates.
It’s staggering.