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September
16, 2005
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Office
of The Attorney General
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Peter C. Harvey,
Attorney General
Division
of Criminal Justice
- Vaughn L. McKoy, Director
Office
of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
- Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor
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Rachel Sacharow
609-984-1936
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Cumberland
County Man Sentenced to State Prison for
Stealing $1,300 in Dead Man’s Workers
Compensation Insurance Checks
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TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that a Cumberland
County man has been sentenced to state
prison for stealing a dead acquaintance’s
disability insurance checks - monies the
claimant was not entitled to receive.
According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Greta Gooden Brown, Bruce Baez, 30, West
Foundry Street, Millville, Cumberland
County, was sentenced by Cumberland County
Superior Court Judge Timothy G. Farrell
to four years in state prison and ordered
to pay restitution and court fees. Baez
was charged with theft by deception via
a State Grand Jury indictment returned
on Sept. 13, 2004.
At the April 4 guilty plea hearing before
Cumberland County Superior Court Judge
Richard J. Geiger, Baez admitted that
between Dec. 19, 2000 and Aug. 4, 2001,
to stealing at least six disability checks
totaling $1,300. The checks were issued
by New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance
Company to Juan “Marcial”
Perez who died on March 15, 2000. Perez
had been receiving the disability checks
pursuant to a workers compensation insurance
policy issued by the New Jersey Manufacturers
Insurance Company. New Jersey Manufacturers,
unaware of Juan “Marcial”
Perez’s death, continued to send
checks to Perez’s Millville residence.
An investigation by the Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor determined that Baez
obtained the checks, forged the beneficiary’s
signature and then cashed the checks.
State Investigator Carlos Ortiz, and Deputy
Attorney General Peter W. Lee were assigned
to the investigation. DAG Lee represented
the Division of Criminal Justice - Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing.
The case was referred to the Office of
Insurance Fraud Prosecutor by New Jersey
Manufacturers Insurance Company.
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