Summary

Federal prosecutors have charged Murielle Misczak, the director of KinderHaus Brooklyn, a day care in Brooklyn, New York, with stealing $2.8 million from the facility.

According to prosecutors, Misczak used the stolen funds for personal trips, food delivery services, and professional wrestling tickets. At least $350,000 of the total was spent taking her three children to WWE events, including deluxe meet-and-greet packages at shows such as Monday Night Raw.

KinderHaus Brooklyn serves around 100 children and was founded in 2009 as New York City's first German immersion preschool. Misczak joined the day care in 2013 and became director in 2020.

WWE's premium event packages appear in federal embezzlement case

WWE's paid meet-and-greet packages being cited in a federal case illustrates how prominent those experiences have become as a recognized premium purchase, because prosecutors used the dollar amounts as concrete examples of personal spending drawn from stolen tuition funds.

The $350,000 figure across multiple WWE events is significant not as a wrestling story but as a measure of scale in the case, since it represents a substantial portion of the alleged $2.8 million total theft.

Quotes

The New York Times reported the following details from the case:

Using at least $350,000 of the stolen funds, Ms. Misczak took her three children to World Wrestling Entertainment events, buying tickets for deluxe packages where they met professional wrestlers at outings like "Monday Night Raw," according to a person familiar with the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement matter.

Sources

As reported by Fightful.