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TRENTON
Attorney General Anne Milgram and Division
of Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni
announced that a Mays Landing woman pleaded
guilty today to illegally collecting more
than $4,000 by submitting fraudulent disability
insurance claims.
According
to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Riza
Dagli, Da’Lynn White, 31, of Mays Landing,
pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge
Michael Donio in Atlantic County to second-degree
insurance fraud, a charge contained in a May
13 indictment.
White
also pleaded guilty today to two counts of
identity theft brought by the Atlantic County
Prosecutor’s Office. Judge Donio scheduled
sentencing for Dec. 4. The Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor and Atlantic County Prosecutor’s
Office will recommend a sentence of five years
in state prison on all of the charges.
In
pleading guilty to the charge brought by OIFP,
White admitted that between March 15 and June
19, 2005, she fraudulently collected $4,357
from the New Jersey Department of Labor and
Workforce Development by submitting false
disability claim forms. White gave the false
impression that she and a co-worker were disabled
and under the care of two doctors. An investigation
determined that White forged the two doctors’
names on the claim forms in support of the
false disability claims. White admitted that
she reported to the labor department that
she was pregnant when, in fact, she was not.
White also admitted that she falsely claimed
her co-worker was injured in an accident on
his way to work.
In
pleading guilty to the charges brought by
the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office,
White admitted that she unlawfully obtained
bank information of at least seven victims,
and used the information to fraudulently obtain
duplicate ATM and other bank cards. White
admitted that she used the fraudulent cards
to obtain cash and other items from various
retail stores within Atlantic County.
Detective
Weldon Powell and Deputy Attorneys General
Susan Kase and Steven Farman were assigned
to the investigation. Deputy Attorney General
Farman represented the Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor at the guilty plea hearing.
Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Dagli thanked
the Department of Labor and Workforce Development
for its assistance. Assistant Prosecutors
Curtis Baker and Diane Ruberton prosecuted
the defendant for the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s
Office.
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