Ellington Woman Ordered to Prison for Gambling While on Supervised Release

ELLINGTON, CT — An Ellington woman has been ordered to prison for two months and has had two years tacked onto her supervised release program for visiting a casino, thus violating the terms of a 2010 federal conviction, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Deirdre M. Daly, the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said that Patricia Baddeley Meehan, 51, of Ellington, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport.

She had been on supervised release following a federal conviction in 2010, Daly said.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on Feb. 11, 2010, Judge Underhill sentenced Meehan to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing $1,716,128 from a law firm for which she was employed and for failing to pay taxes on the stolen income.

Meehan was released from federal prison in August 2013 and began serving her term of supervised release, a condition of which included that she, "refrain from gambling and not enter any establishment known to promote gambling," Daly said.

An investigation revealed that Meehan gambled at Foxwoods Resort Casino on at least 23 occasions between 2014 and 2016, and had jackpot winnings of at least $51,862, Daly said.

During that time, she has paid only approximately $8,021 of the more than $1.7 million in restitution she owes, Daly said

Meehan was ordered to report to prison on Sept. 28, Daly said.

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