TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram announced
that a Sussex County man and a Bergen County
woman have been sentenced for stealing health
insurance benefits by falsely claiming they
were married.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Andrew J. Dorrothy, 46, of Stockholm,
was ordered today by Superior Court Judge
Peter Conforti in Sussex County to serve
three years probation and to pay $2,600
in restitution. On Aug. 7, Dorrothy’s
co-defendant, Lynn M. Mickley also known
as Lynn M. Lauber 37, of Ramsey, was ordered
to pay $2,600 in restitution to Oxford Health
Plans. The sentences were pursuant to their
guilty pleas to theft by deception, a charge
contained in a May 15, 2007 Sussex County
indictment.
At
the April 14 guilty plea hearing, Dorrothy
and Mickley admitted that between March
1999 and October 2002, Dorrothy fraudulently
represented that he was legally married
to Mickley so that Mickley would be entitled
to dependant spouse health insurance benefits
under coverage provided by various insurance
companies. They admitted that these false
representations were made on various records
and forms submitted to Oxford Health Plans,
Aetna Insurance Company, and Delta Dental
Insurance Company. Dorrothy and Mickley
admitted that they were never legally married.
Detective
Gregory Pringle, Civil Investigator Carol
Seekamp, and Deputy Attorney General Steve
Farman were assigned to the investigation
for the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
Farman represented the Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing.
Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor Brown thanked Oxford Health
Plans, Aetna Insurance Company, and Delta
Dental Insurance Company for their assistance
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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