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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a state corrections officer was sentenced
to jail today for using of a fictitious
auto insurance identification card.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Crystal Williams McCrary, aka Crystal
Williams, 25, of East Orange, was ordered
by Superior Court Judge Nancy Sivilli to
serve 364 days in county jail as a condition
of three years probation. Williams McCrary
was also ordered to pay a $4,000 criminal
fine, forfeit her public employment with
the Department of Corrections, and perform
150 hours of community service. Williams
McCrary was sentenced pursuant to her Feb.
19 guilty plea to official misconduct and
falsifying or tampering with public records,
charges contained in a Nov. 30 Essex County
grand jury indictment.
In
pleading guilty before Judge Sivilli, Williams
McCrary admitted that on Oct. 28, 2006,
she appeared at the East Orange Motor Vehicle
Agency wearing her official Department of
Corrections uniform and displaying her official
Department of Corrections credentials. She
presented a fictitious automobile insurance
identification card purportedly issued by
the State Farm Insurance Company. Williams
McCrary admitted that she presented the
fake card to the customer service representative
in connection with registering an automobile.
The customer service representative, relying
on her document fraud training, recognized
that the auto insurance identification card
was phony and confiscated it.
On July 1, 2003, prior to becoming a Corrections
Officer, Williams McCrary registered another
vehicle by filing a document that falsely
indicated the vehicle was covered by a specific
State Farm Insurance Company policy when,
in fact, Williams McCrary was not a State
Farm policyholder.
Detectives
Kelly A. Howard and Darrell Washington,
and Deputy Attorney General Robert J. Brass
were assigned to the investigation. Brass
represented the Office of Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor at the sentencing.
The
matter was referred to OIFP by the Motor
Vehicle Commission as well as the Special
Investigative Unit of the State Farm Insurance
Company, which assisted OIFP in the investigation.
Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Brown thanked
State Farm and the Motor Vehicle Commission
for their assistance.
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