An ex-Brick employee and daughter of a former disgraced township mayor was released Wednesday after she served only 10 months of a 5-year sentence for stealing nearly $1 million from the township's health insurance program to help chiropractor brother's failing practice.

Kim Bogan, 52, of Brick, was released early through the state's Intensive Supervision Program, her attorney, Steven Secare, said Friday.

Kim Bogan, 53, of Brick (New Jersey Department of Corrections)

"Certain people are eligible for the program," Secare said. "You can't be in for a violent crime and there can't be a parole disqualifier. The program is designed for people like her."

Bogan was sentenced in January after pleading guilty in October to a single count of theft by deception, officials have said.

She admitted that between 2011 and 2017 she tried to help her New York-based chiropractor brother, Glenn Scarpelli, by helping him submit false claims to her employee health insurance program totaling $941,354, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said.

"The defendant allowed the practitioner to submit claims in her name for services never rendered, and endorsed the insurance checks when they were mailed to her, knowing the money was stolen," former New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino said in a release earlier this year.

As the scheme unraveled, Scarpelli and his wife, Patricia Colant, leapt to their deaths from a Madison Avenue building in New York, where Scarpelli ran his practice. The New York Post reported that the couple was deeply in debt and left behind suicide notes where they said "cannot live with" their "financial reality."

Scarpelli and Bogan's father, former Brick Mayor Joseph Scarpelli, received an 18-month federal prison sentence in 2007 for taking bribes in exchange for helping a developer obtain approval for construction projects.

He served as Brick's mayor for nearly 13 years before he resigned in December 2006, one month before he pleaded guilty.

As part of her plea agreement, Bogan was ordered to pay the $941,354 she stole back to the town.

Under the Intensive Supervision Program, Bogan will have to wear a monitoring device and must be "gainfully employed" within a certain time period to help pay back her debt to Brick, Secare said.

"If you violate the terms, you can be sent back to state prison," he said. "It's not an easy program because you have someone watching over you."

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