By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-06-12 01:16:02 | Updated at 2026-06-12 09:21:50
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The former head of a German immersion preschool in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to bilking nearly $3 million in tuition payments — and blowing almost all of it on luxury vacations and WWE tickets.
Murielle Misczak, 43, pocketed roughly $2.8 million in tuition payments from the KinderHaus in Park Slope, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Misczak, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud, embezzled the tuition by transferring payments from unassuming parents into her personal accounts, prosecutors said.
The cheat started the scheme in January 2022, just two years after she was promoted to director, the release said.
The disgraced educator burned through the loot, spending more than $600,000 on food and entertainment, then another $350,000 on tickets to WWE matches.
She also wasted several hundreds of thousands more on luxury goods, food deliveries, and ride sharing services.
A law enforcement source previously told The Post that Misczak splurged on a VIP package to the WWE’s “Monday Night Raw” and met the pros with her three children.
Misczak’s coworkers eventually raised questions about her high-flying lifestyle, which would be impossible to maintain on her $40,000 annual salary.
The director, who has dual citizenship in Switzerland, claimed that she was the heir to a wealthy Swiss family in an attempt to explain away her eyebrow-raising expenses, according to a lawsuit the school filed against her in December.
When Misczak’s ploy was eventually uncovered in October 2025, the school’s principal had to use her personal savings to cover payroll and operational costs, the suit said.
“Murielle Misczak’s selfish greed deprived a local daycare of nearly three million dollars in critical funding intended for services to support the development and care of our communities’ children. The FBI continues to pull back the curtain on fraudsters seeking to steal from innocent New Yorkers, regardless of their cover up attempts,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Barnacle Jr. said.
Misczak faces up to six-and-a-half years behind bars on top of paying $2.8 million in restitution. She could also be deported when she completes her sentence.
She originally pleaded not guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and “Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Criminally Derived Property” in late March.
