A former Connecticut educator will have her pension payments reduced after being convicted of stealing more than $38,000 in tuition payments from a before-and after-school child care program where she served as director.

A Hartford Superior Court judge ordered the reduction in municipal payments for Catherine Finkle, who was convicted in 2021 of defrauding the town of East Haven’s child care program, according to a release from state Attorney General William Tong Tuesday.

Finkle reportedly diverted more than $30,000 of tuition and cash payments for the program to her own bank account as director of the Little Jackets child care program in East Haven from January 2011 to November 2018, Tong said. Discovery of the missing tuition payments reportedly led to her dismissal and a grievance

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