Nov 29, 2006 - Candice Lambert, 41, special education teacher, pleaded guilty to third-degree grand larceny . She taught at Harmony Hill Elementary School in Cohoes for a decade before going on disability leave saying she had terminal cancer. She received more than $110,000 from New York's Teachers' Retirement System.
From The Telegraph story: She was named one of the "Schoolhouse Heroes" by The Telegraph for her struggle against cancer. "There was no cancer, Lambert admitted when she was fired in Bedford for teaching without a certificate in her earlier job in Brookline."
Update: Jan 23, 2007 - Lambert was sentenced to one to three years in jail.
Her story began to unravel because of a dispute with the parents of a special education student. The parents learned that she did not have the required teaching certificate. At a legal hearing in May 2005, she said under oath she did have that certificate, but under another name.
