A former corrections officer at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department was sentenced to two years of supervised release for fraudulently obtaining nearly $40,000 of pandemic unemployment assistance, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Jasmine Murphy, 39, was also sentenced Wednesday to one day in prison, which she already served, and ordered to pay $37,576 in restitution, according to the office of Leah B. Foley, US Attorney for Massachusetts.
Murphy pleaded guilty to seven counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements to a financial institution in April, Foley’s office said in a statement.
According to prosecutors, Murphy worked as a corrections officer from January 2022 to December 2024.
She fraudulently applied for pandemic unemployment and small business loan benefits before that, when she worked for a trucking and workforce services company, Foley’s office said.
While at that company, Murphy falsified her employment status on assistance applications. On a weekly basis, she reported that she did not work and did not receive any income the prior week, prosecutors said.
In her small business loan applications, prosecutors said Murphy submitted false income and payroll statements to lenders.
According to court records, Murphy used an old address, changed her middle initial, and altered digits of her Social Security number and birthday when filling out some applications, the Globe previously reported.
She collected some of those benefits while working at the sheriff’s department, prosecutors said.
Murphy was arrested and charged in December 2024, Foley’s office said.
In December 2025, Murphy was indicted and charged with another officer, Christnel Orisca, who worked at the department from 2021 to 2024, according to Foley’s office.
Orisca was similarly charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to obtain federal benefits, the attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors said he fraudulently obtained approximately $54,700 in pandemic unemployment and small business loans.
Madyline Swearing can be reached at madyline.swearing@globe.com.