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TRENTON - Attorney General
Anne Milgram announced that a Glassboro
man has been sentenced to state prison for
using a phony Social Security number to
file an application for automobile insurance.
According to Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Christian
Whittaker, 28, of Glassboro, who currently
is held in the Mountainview Youth Correctional
Facility as the result of unrelated criminal
charges, was sentenced to three years in
state prison yesterday by Superior Court
Judge Robert P. Becker in Gloucester County.
Whittaker was sentenced
pursuant to his guilty plea to insurance
fraud, a charge contained in a Jan. 30 Gloucester
County grand jury indictment. At the Aug.
4 plea hearing, Whittaker admitted that
on Aug. 9, 2005, he falsely submitted an
electronic application for automobile insurance
to the GEICO Insurance Company utilizing
a phony Social Security number. GEICO denied
the claim and referred the matter to the
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
State Investigator Christina
Fiscella and Deputy Attorney General John
J. Higgins were assigned to the investigation.
Higgins represented the state at the sentencing.
This case was referred to
OIFP by the Special Investigative Unit of
the Geico Insurance Company, which initially
uncovered the fraud and assisted OIFP in
the investigation. Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Brown thanks GEICO for their assistance
in this case.
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