BROOKLYN — A former city retirement examiner was sentenced Wednesday to up to three years in prison for stealing $624,000 from the New York City Employees’ Retirement System. Prosecutors said Gregory Mathieu, 41, of Canarsie, reactivated a deceased worker’s suspended pension and diverted payments from another retiree between 2021 and 2024. The money funded luxury goods, vacations and large cash withdrawals.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Mathieu betrayed the public trust, while city Department of Investigations Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber announced reforms to safeguard the nation’s largest municipal pension system.

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