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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram announced
that a Union County man was sentenced to
county jail today for fraudulently depositing
or cashing more than $24,000 in disability
checks made payable to a family member after
she had died.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Darin L. Still, 39, of Rahway, was
ordered by Superior Court Judge Stuart Peim
in Union County to serve 30 days in county
jail as a condition of three years probation.
Still was also ordered to serve 30 days
in the county labor program and pay $24,639
in restitution. The sentence was pursuant
to Still’s guilty plea to theft by
deception, a charge contained in an April
11 Union County grand jury indictment.
At
the July 14 guilty plea hearing, Still admitted
that between June 25, 2003, and Nov. 3,
2005, he falsely cashed or deposited disability
insurance claim checks made payable to another
person. The investigation determined that
Still’s aunt received disability checks
from Unum Provident Life and Casualty Insurance
Company pursuant to a disability claim she
had made. Still admitted that, after the
woman died in May 2003, he failed to notify
Unum of the death, and then fraudulently
cashed or deposited 30 disability checks,
each worth approximately $821, payable to
the aunt. As a result, Still allegedly collected
approximately $24,630 in claims to which
he was not entitled.
Detective Abraham Aquino, Civil Investigator
Kenneth Frazee, and Deputy Attorney General
James F. Flanagan were assigned to the investigation
into this case. Flanagan represented the
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at
the sentencing.
This
case was referred to OIFP by the Special
Investigative Unit of Unum Provident Insurance
Company, formerly known as the Provident
Life and Casualty Insurance Company, which
initially uncovered the fraud and assisted
OIFP in the investigation. Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor Brown thanked Unum Provident
for its assistance in this matter.
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