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For Immediate Release:
For Further Information:
June 6, 2012

Office of The Attorney General

- Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Attorney General
Division of Criminal Justice
- Stephen J. Taylor, Director
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
- Ronald Chillemi, Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

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Essex County Woman Arrested for Allegedly Presenting Forged Government Documents to Obtain Job as Certified Nurse Aide
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TRENTON - Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced today that a Newark woman has been arrested for allegedly presenting forged government documents when obtaining employment as a certified nurse aide.

Bassey Justice Woodson, 49, of Newark, was arrested June 1 on charges of falsifying government documents, theft by deception and uttering a forged instrument, all in the third degree.

Woodson allegedly presented a forged Nurse Aide Certification and a forged Employment Authorization Card when applying for a job as a certified nurse aide in Hackensack. It is alleged that the Nurse Aide Certification, issued by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, displayed a registration number which corresponded to another individual, not Woodson. An investigation by the State’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit determined that the license associated with the license number expired on Sept. 21, 2008, but Woodson allegedly tampered with the document so that it reflected an expiration date of Sept. 20, 2012.

The State’s investigation further revealed that the Employment Authorization Card, issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security, allegedly displayed a fraudulent expiration date in 2012 when the card actually expired in 2007.

As a result of her allegedly fraudulent actions, Woodson was hired by Right at Home, 316 State Street, Hackensack, a home health aide staffing agency, as a Certified Nurse Aide and received $4,410 in salary to which she was not entitled.

The charges are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Because the charges are indictable offenses, they will be presented to a state grand jury for potential indictment.

Detective Sergeant Patricia Yellen and Deputy Attorney General David Noble were assigned to the case. Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi thanked the Department of Health and Senior Services for referring the matter to the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.

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