A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 180 days in the Essex County Correctional Facility as a condition of probation for committing insurance fraud when he staged a motor vehicle accident in Newark, New Jersey. James E. Payne of Wilkes Barre, …
As October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal warned residents of the state that data breaches, internet fraud and online threats are on the rise. With New Jersey residents facing a rise in …
A Bergen County, N.J., woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for filing phony insurance claims for losses she purportedly sustained during Superstorm Sandy and for filing a false bankruptcy application to shed $175,000 in debt. Katreecea Cline, …
A former site manager for a temporary staffing agency in New Jersey has been sentenced to prison for stealing $190,000 from the agency. Xiomara Jovel, 47, of Roselle, N.J., was sentenced to three years in state prison by Superior Court …
A New Jersey woman has been charged with insurance fraud and other offenses in an alleged scheme to steal more than $175,000 from the insurance annuity policies of two individuals. Vashanta Stroud-Bennett, 45, of Paterson, N.J., was charged with second …
A New Jersey man has been charged with insurance fraud and theft by deception in an alleged scheme to collect $17,048 in temporary total disability payment from his insurance company. Ramdeo Ramsaran, of Teaneck, N.J., was indicted on charges of …
A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining insurance identification cards as part of a scheme to steal luxury used vehicles from dealerships in New Jersey and New York. Paige Hunt, 27, of Bloomfield, N.J., pleaded guilty to …
A Florida man has been charged with assuming the identity of a New Jersey doctor to submit more than $1 million in fraudulent medical claims for services allegedly rendered at a Morris County medical center that, in reality, did not …
A Jersey City, N.J., woman has been charged with stealing more than $46,000 by fraudulently collecting her mother’s workers’ comp dependency benefits for nearly three years after she died. Wanda Berry was indicted on charges of second-degree insurance fraud and …
New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced that a Woodbridge, N.J., man was sentenced to three years in prison for reporting that his motorcycle had been stripped of its parts by …
