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TRENTON Attorney General
Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice
Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that
a Mays Landing woman was sentenced today
to state prison for 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, was sentenced
to five years in state prison by Superior
Court Judge Michael Donio in Atlantic County.
White was also ordered to pay $4,357 in
restitution. The sentence is based on White’s
guilty plea to insurance fraud, a charge
contained in a May 13, 2009 indictment.
Judge Donio also sentenced
White to five years in state prison based
on her Aug. 17, 2009 guilty plea to two
counts of identity theft brought by the
Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.
The sentences will run concurrently.
In pleading guilty on Aug.
17 to the charge brought by the Office of
the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, 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 the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
at the sentencing 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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