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For Immediate Release:  
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January 26, 2007  

Division of Criminal Justice
609-292-4791

Office of The Attorney General
- Stuart Rabner, Attorney General
Division of Criminal Justice
- Gregory A. Paw, Director

Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
- Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

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Toms River Woman Sentenced for $700,000 Life Insurance Fraud

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TRENTON - Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced that an Ocean County woman was sentenced today to five years in state prison for stealing more than $700,000 in life insurance monies.

According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Mary Maschuci, 55, of Toms River, was ordered by Ocean County Superior Court Judge James N. Citta to serve five years in state prison and to pay $105,000 restitution. The sentence follows Maschuci’s June 19, 2006 guilty plea to charges of insurance fraud and theft by deception, both in the second degree.

In pleading guilty, Maschuci admitted that between June 9, 2003 and April 20, 2005, she submitted false life insurance claims to nine insurance companies. Specifically, she admitted that she applied to the companies for life insurance benefits on her life, then posed as her adult daughter to file false claims, informing the insurance companies that Mary Maschuci had died. Maschuci also submitted false death certificates to the companies. Maschuci attempted to collect more than $1.08 million in claims monies and was successful in collecting $738,409.

The false life insurance claims were sent to Empire Indemnity Insurance Company, Individual Assurance Company, Protective Life Insurance Company, AIG Insurance Company, Hartford Life & Accident Insurance Company, USAA Life Insurance Company, Minnesota Life Insurance Company, Allstate Insurance Company, and Manhattan National Life Insurance Company, formerly Conseco Insurance Company.

State Investigator Natalie Brotherston, Civil Investigator David Hiestand and Deputy Attorney General Stephen Cirillo handled the case.

Prosecutor Brown noted that some important cases have started with anonymous tips. People who are concerned about insurance cheating and have information about a fraud can report it anonymously by calling the toll-free hotline 1-877-55-FRAUD or visiting the Web at www.NJInsuranceFraud.org. State regulations permit an award to be paid to an eligible person who provides information that leads to an arrest, prosecution and conviction for insurance fraud.

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