TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a Bergen County man was sentenced today
for attempting to steal $150,000 by buying
an insurance policy on the life of his wife
after she was already dead.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Sohan Singh Gill, 47, of Elmwood
Park, was ordered by Superior Court Judge
Harry G. Carroll in Bergen County to serve
one year probation conditioned on 14 days
in county jail, which he will fulfill through
the Sheriff’s Labor Assistance Program,
and to pay a $5,000 civil fine. The sentence
is pursuant to Gill’s guilty plea
before Judge Carroll to attempted theft
by deception, a charge contained in an Aug.
21 Bergen County grand jury indictment.
At
his guilty plea on Nov. 27, Gill admitted
that between July 24, 2000 and Aug. 13,
2003, Gill attempted to steal life insurance
benefits from the Reassure America Life
Insurance Company by purchasing a life insurance
policy on the life of his wife on July 24,
2000, two days after death records show
she died in Paterson. It is charged that
in 2003, Gill attempted to collect on the
policy by creating the false impression
that his wife died on Jan. 15, 2003.
State
Investigator Gregory Pringle, Civil Investigator
Andre Mitchell and Deputy Attorney General
Cheryl A. Maccaroni were assigned to the
investigation. Maccaroni represented the
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at
the sentencing.
This
case was referred to OIFP by the Special
Investigative Unit of Reassure America Life
Insurance Company which initially uncovered
the fraud and assisted OIFP in the investigation.
Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Brown thanks
Reassure America for their involvement in
this matter.
The
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor was
established by the Automobile Insurance
Cost Reduction Act of 1998. The office is
the centralized state agency that investigates
and prosecutes both civil and criminal insurance
fraud, as well as Medicaid fraud.
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