TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni
announced that an Essex County man was sentenced
today for fraudulently reporting that his
son had died to collect on a life insurance
policy.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Anthony Myers Sr., 35, of Newark,
was ordered to serve three years of probation
by Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto
in Morris County. The sentence was pursuant
to Myers’s Dec. 16 guilty plea to
insurance fraud. The charge was contained
in an Aug. 1, 2007 indictment.
In
pleading guilty, Myers admitted that between
March 21 and May 10, 2006, he submitted
a fraudulent claim to State Farm Insurance
Company in an attempt to collect on a life
insurance policy. Myers admitted that he
falsely claimed that his son, Anthony Myers
Jr., had died. An investigation determined
that Myers Jr. was not dead, but was alive
and living in North Carolina. In order to
substantiate his claim, Myers Sr. falsified
a claimant statement that he submitted to
State Farm Insurance Company.
Detective Michael Rasar and Civil Investigators
Joseph Wirzbicki and Joseph Dugan, and Deputy
Attorney General Susan Kase were assigned
to the investigation. Kase represented the
Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at
the sentencing.
This
case was referred to OIFP by the Special
Investigative Unit of State Farm Insurance
Company which initially uncovered the fraud
and assisted OIFP in the investigation.
Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Brown thanks
State Farm Insurance Company for their involvement
in this matter.
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