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Teacher Seeks Leave to Serve Prison Time

NEW YORK - A city teacher convicted of stealing from elderly women tried to take a leave of absence from work to serve prison time in New Jersey without properly reporting his arrest or conviction to the right authorities, school investigators said Tuesday.

Thomas Everett will not be welcome back to the classroom, school officials said. But Everett, a disbarred lawyer who taught social studies at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, said he hopes to teach again someday.

His strange tale was uncovered earlier this year when he submitted a request for an unpaid leave of absence lasting 60 to 90 days. In the late January request, he wrote that he had "problems with the State of New Jersey Judicial System" and "must fulfill an obligation to the State."

That raised a few flags.

Everett had been convicted in Essex County, New Jersey, of misappropriating entrusted funds and theft by deception. The charges stemmed from allegations that he stole more than $1 million from elderly women who hired him to execute their estates in the 1990s. The investigators' report did not specify the victims' ages but referred to them as elderly and said two had been in nursing homes and had died.

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