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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced
that a physician’s assistant pleaded
guilty today for fraudulently obtaining controlled
prescription drugs.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Alison Kinlaw, 32, of Bordentown, pleaded
guilty before Superior Court Judge Gerald
J. Council in Mercer County to an accusation
charging her with third-degree theft by deception.
Kinlaw
is scheduled to appear before Judge Council
on May 7. Kinlaw paid both $1,500 in restitution
and a $2,500 civil fine today. Kinlaw’s
physician’s assistant’s license
was suspended by the Board of Medical Examiners
on March 5, 2008.
In
pleading guilty, Kinlaw, who worked as a physician’s
assistant at various locations throughout
New Jersey, admitted that between Jan. 1,
2005, and July 31, 2007, she falsely represented
to the Aetna Insurance Company that the doctors
had prescribed medications for her. An investigation
determined that, in her position as a physician
assistant, Kinlaw called prescriptions into
local pharmacies, purportedly on behalf of
the physicians by whom she was employed. Kinlaw
admitted that the physicians had not actually
authorized the prescriptions.
Detective
Carlos Ortiz, Civil Investigator Robert Rosiello,
and Deputy Attorney General Steven B. Farman
were assigned to the investigation. Farman
represented the Office of Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor at the guilty plea hearing. The
case was referred to OIFP by the Enforcement
Bureau of the Division of Consumer Affairs,
which initially uncovered the fraud and assisted
OIFP in the investigation. Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor Brown thanked the Division of Consumer
Affairs and the Aetna Insurance Company for
their assistance in this matter.
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