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 clinic on April 15 , 2007 . prosecutors claim she was n't injured in the explosions that killed three and injured more than 260 . prosecutors say she did not receive medical treatment for about two weeks . Leigh blames the charges as punishment for criticizing The One Fund Boston over its safety claims .