A Boston woman has been indicted with . fraudulently obtaining $ 8,000 from the fund set up for victims . of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing , and thousands more from . other fundraising , officials said on Thursday . Investigators found that Joanna Leigh , 41 , was at the Boston . Marathon on April 15 , 2013 when two bombs exploded , killing . three people and injuring more than 260 , but they argued that . she was not injured , the Boston Police Department said in a. statement . Leigh was indicted earlier this month by a Suffolk County . grand jury on five larceny counts and a charge of making a false . claim to the government , the police department said . Charged : Investigators said Joanna Leigh , 41 , was at the Boston Marathon on April 15 , 2013 when two bombs exploded , , but they have argued that she was not injured . It said Leigh received $ 8,000 from The One Fund Boston , . which raised nearly $ 80 million in the aftermath of the attack . She also received a combined $ 28,700 from a middle school . fundraiser , an online campaign and the Massachusetts Victims of . Violent Crime Compensation fund , according to the police . statement . The news comes as the trial of accused bomber , 21-year-old . Dzhokhar Tsarnaev takes place in Boston . Tsarnaev could be . sentenced to death if he is convicted . Police said Leigh did not seek medical treatment for about . two weeks after the bombing , and when she did , she called . herself a 'hero ' who ran toward the second explosion . 'At a time when most people were asking how they could help , . others were wondering how they could benefit , ' Suffolk County . District Attorney Daniel Conley was quoted as saying in the . police statement . Leigh claims the charges are punishment for criticism of The One Fund Boston over its compensation policies . Leigh , who is set to be arraigned on Monday , told the Boston . Globe newspaper that she was injured in the blast , and that the . charges were punishment for her criticizing The One Fund Boston . over its compensation policies . ' I do n't think this is about me ; I think this is because I. spoke out about The One Fund , ' she told the Globe . ' I think this . is about killing the messenger . I went after the governor and . the mayor 's charity , and I did n't shut up about it , and I caused . them trouble . ' Several others have also been charged with theft from the . fund . In January a woman from Maine was arrested on charges of . scamming $ 8,000 from The One Fund , and a New York woman was . sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty last . May to fraudulently collecting $ 480,000 from the fund .
Joanna Leigh , 41 , was at the Boston Marathon on April 15 , 2013 . Investigators claim she was n't injured in the explosions that killed three and injured more than 260 . She is accused of being a suicide bomber who blew herself up after detonating her explosives vest inside an SUV parked near the finish line. Leigh blames the charges as punishment for criticizing The One Fund Boston over its compensation policies .