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For
Further Information Contact: |
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September
15, 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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Essex
County Mother and Daughter Sentenced for
Selling Fictitious Motor Vehicle Documents
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TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that an Essex
County mother and daughter have been sentenced
for selling fictitious motor vehicle documents.
According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Greta Gooden-Brown, Kamillah Ali, 34,
Vernon Avenue, Newark, Essex County, was
sentenced by Essex County Superior Court
Judge Michael J. Nelson to three years
probation after pleading guilty on April
11 to three counts of sale of simulated
documents and one count of simulating
a motor vehicle insurance identification
card. The charges were contained in an
Oct. 15, 2004 State Grand Jury indictment.
Ali’s mother, Julia Ali, pleaded
guilty to a disorderly person offense
of creating a nuisance charge and was
ordered to pay court fines.
In pleading guilty before Judge Nelson,
Kamilla Ali admitted that between Oct.
3 and Oct. 12, 2001, she sold fictitious
motor vehicle-related documents from her
home. An undercover State Investigator
from the Division of Criminal Justice
- Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
developed a relationship with Ali and
was able to purchase fictitious documents
on three separate occasions. Among the
items Ali pleaded guilty to selling were
a New Jersey driver’s license, a
New Jersey automobile title, an automobile
insurance identification card, and a social
security card. The combined value of the
items she pleaded guilty to selling was
more than $1,100.
The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
has uncovered an active black market trade
bartering the sale of stolen and/or phony
identity-related documents which include
New Jersey drivers licenses and vehicle
registrations, federal and state commercial
drivers licenses, social security cards,
and birth certificates. Stolen or counterfeit
documents are sold for amounts ranging
from several hundred to several thousand
dollars each, and are used in identity
theft scams, phony insurance claims, thefts,
and other illegal purposes.
State Investigators Luis Cruz and Joseph
Waters, and Deputy Attorney General Jacqueline
D. Smith were assigned to the investigation.
DAG Smith represented the Division of
Criminal Justice - Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor at the Sept. 12 sentencing.
The Conrail Police Department assisted
in the investigation.
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