TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that an Atlantic
County Nurse Assistant has pleaded guilty
to assaulting an elderly nursing home
patient.
According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Greta Gooden Brown, Chanel McRae, 27,
Railroad Boulevard, Richland, Atlantic
County, pleaded guilty before Atlantic
County Superior Court Judge Michael Connor
to an Atlantic County indictment filed
by the Division of Criminal Justice -
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor on
June 8. The indictment charged McRae with
aggravated assault (4th degree). When
sentenced on Oct. 28, McRae faces up to
18 months in state prison and a criminal
fine of $10,000. This matter has also
been referred to the Department of Health
and Senior Services, which certifies Nurses’
Assistants, for action deemed appropriate.
At the guilty plea hearing, McRae admitted
that on April 10, 2004, while employed
as a Nurse’s Assistant at the Absecon
Manor Long Term Care Facility and Rehabilitation
Center, McRae struck the elderly patient
several times.
State Investigator Christine Barclay and
Deputy Attorney General William Hoyman
were assigned to the investigation. DAG
Hoyman represented the Division of Criminal
Justice - Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
at the guilty plea hearing. Absecon Manor
Long Term Care Facility and Rehabilitation
Center greatly assisted the Division of
Criminal Justice in the investigation.
The Medicaid Program, which is funded
by the state and federal governments,
provides health care services and prescription
drugs to persons who may not otherwise
be able to afford such services and medicines.
The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s
Medicaid Fraud Section investigates both
criminal and civil Medicaid fraud as well
as abuse in the Medicaid Program.
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