A former Massachusetts state employee has been indicted for billing the state for $42,500 in overtime pay for hours she did not work.
Attorney General Maura Healey announced Monday that Katelynn Sullivan, 33, of Lowell, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services, was paid for 1,428 hours of overtime that she did not work between July 2015 and March 2017.
Sullivan worked for a state-run group home for adults with intellectual disabilities.
According to Healey’s office, employees who worked overtime were required to document the date, time, hours, and reason for overtime on a handwritten log in the home, and that information would be approved and entered into an online payroll system. Sullivan, without authorization, allegedly entered hours that she did not work into the online system.
She was indicted by a Suffolk County Special Grand Jury on charges of larceny over $250 and false claims. She will be arraigned Feb. 4 in Suffolk Superior Court.
According to the state payroll database, Sullivan’s base salary gradually increased from around $29,000 in 2010 to nearly $41,000 in 2016.
Through 2014, she earned less than $3,300 a year in overtime pay. In 2015, her overtime pay jumped to more than $10,000, and in 2016, she took home more than $32,000 in overtime.
She stopped working for the state in 2017.