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TRENTON
Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced
that a Passaic County man has been sentenced
for fraudulently using his father’s
insurance plan to obtain prescription pain
medications.
According
to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Riza
Dagli, David Van Dunk, Jr., 35, of Hewitt,
was sentence yesterday (Sept. 14) by Superior
Court Judge Nestor F. Guzman in Passaic County
to probation conditioned upon his completion
of a long-term, in-patient drug rehabilitation
program. Van Dunk was also ordered to pay
$12,140 in restitution. The sentence is based
on Van Dunk's guilty plea to theft by deception,
a charge contained in an Oct. 7, 2008 Passaic
County grand jury indictment.
At
the July 20 guilty plea hearing, Van Dunk
admitted that between Jan. 24 and Nov. 8,
2006, he falsely used his father’s prescription
plan to wrongfully obtain prescription medications,
including oxycodone, Percocet, morphine sulfate,
and Endocet. Van Dunk claimed that the medications
were for his father when, in fact, they were
for himself. As a result of the fraud, Connecticut
General Life Insurance Company paid various
pharmacies a total of $12,140 for the prescription
medications.
Detective Abraham Aquino and Deputy Attorney
General Cheryl A. Maccaroni were assigned
to the investigation. Maccaroni represented
the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at
the sentencing.
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