New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that a Union County man was sentenced to county jail for fraudulently depositing or cashing more than $24,000 in disability checks made payable to a family member after she had died.According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Darin L. Still, 39, of Rahway, was ordered by Superior Court Judge Stuart Peim in Union County to serve 30 days in county jail as a condition of three years probation. Still was also ordered to serve 30 days in the county labor program and pay $24,639 in restitution. The sentence was pursuant to Still’s guilty plea to theft by deception, a charge contained in an April 11 Union County grand jury indictment.
At the July 14 guilty plea hearing, Still reportedly admitted that between June 25, 2003, and Nov. 3, 2005, he falsely cashed or deposited disability insurance claim checks made payable to another person. The investigation determined that Still’s aunt received disability checks from Unum Provident Life and Casualty Insurance Company pursuant to a disability claim she had made.
Still reportedly admitted that, after the woman died in May 2003, he failed to notify Unum of the death, and then fraudulently cashed or deposited 30 disability checks, each worth approximately $821, payable to the aunt.
As a result, Still allegedly collected approximately $24,630 in claims to which he was not entitled.
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2 comments:
I imagine it was tempting when those checks kept coming in. But you have to know this type of activity will catch up to you at some point.
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unfortunately, we see more and more of this in the industry, especially in these tougher economic times. what's needed is judges who are not afraid to throw the book at someone.
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