NYC Preschool Director Caught Embezzling $3M for Lavish WWE Lifestyle, Say Feds

Let her face the parents in the ring!

A Brooklyn preschool director was taken into custody on Wednesday, accused of misappropriating almost $3 million in school fees to fund a lavish lifestyle, including splurging on professional wrestling events and luxurious trips, as detailed in a recent federal indictment.

Murielle Misczak, who leads Kinderhaus Brooklyn located in the Park Slope neighborhood, allegedly used upwards of $350,000 in misappropriated funds to secure tickets to exclusive WWE wrestling events, even flaunting some of these experiences on Instagram, as revealed in the indictment made public on Wednesday.

The Swiss national stands accused of channeling approximately $2.75 million in tuition payments into her personal bank account for her own use and enjoyment over a period stretching from January 2022 to October 2023, according to the indictment.

“She frequently indulged in trips and getaways around the country, often bi-weekly, staying in upscale resorts, enjoying VIP treatment at WWE matches, and relishing first-class services, much of which she proudly shared on her public Instagram and other social media platforms,” states a lawsuit brought against her by the preschool in December.

Her extravagant wrestling expenditures included at least one VIP backstage pass, allowing her and her three children to meet wrestling stars, a law enforcement official disclosed.

Misczak allegedly blew $650,000 on travel and entertainment, $150,000 on food delivery services,  and hundreds of thousands of dollars on high-end luxury goods, the federal authorities said.

She covered up the theft by “manipulating” the school’s internal accounting system to falsely show that the payments had been deposited into the school’s bank account —  then deleted emails that would have revealed the scheme, according to the indictment.

Misczak, who earned a paltry $40,000 annually from the school, was living far beyond her means as she paid for two apartments in Park Slope that cost her a total of  $36,000 per-year, according to the lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn civil court.

“When [the school] inquired about her lavish lifestyle, [she] falsely claimed that she was the beneficiary of substantial funds from her mother in Basel, Switzerland. Of course, this purported beneficiary was a ruse,” the suit states.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Misczak was eventually busted, but the school’s principal learned about the scheme in October 2025 and  “was forced to use her own personal savings to meet Plaintiff’s payroll and operational obligations,” the suit states.

Misczak was hired by the preschool in 2013 and rose ranks to become director in 2020. It is unclear why she is so enthusiastic about professional wrestling.

She’s charged with wire fraud, money laundering and “Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Criminally Derived Property.”

“My client looks forward to a fair resolution of this matter in court,” Misczak’s lawyer, Lowell Sidney, told The Post Wednesday.