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Thief gets jail instead of heart transplant
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Shoplifting likely to cost woman her life as she loses spot on heart transplant list with sentence
Kathleen Lucadamo
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, September 29th 2011, 1:29 PM
Diane McCloud, 47, of Hempstead, LI, was sprung in January to get on a heart transplant list.
But she was busted again in August for stealing $500 in toiletries from a CVS drugstore. Prosecutors said the crime was part of McCloud's one-woman shoplifting spree since she was released from jail.
Nassau County Judge Francis Ricigliano ordered McCloud to serve the original 15 month sentence, also for shoplifting, and another year for the new charges, according to her lawyer.
McCloud, who had been going for screenings at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan to get on its heart transplant list, no longer qualifies for the procedure since Medicaid doesn't cover inmates.
The judge had threatened to toss her back in jail if she didn't quit smoking, a promise he planned to keep when her doctors alerted him that she hadn't kicked the habit.
But when she returned for a court appearance in August, she was arrested on new shoplifting charges, making the smoking deal a moot point.
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