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For
Further Information Contact: |
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| January
30, 2006
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| Office
of The Attorney General
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Nancy Kaplen,
Acting Attorney General
Division
of Criminal Justice
- Vaughn L. McKoy, Director
Office
of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
- Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor
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Rachel
Sacharow
609-984-1936
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| Cumberland
County Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to
$99,000
Theft of Insurance Premium Money
Criminal Accusation
Results from Joint Investigation Between
State, County
and Local Law Enforcement...
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TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that a Cumberland
County insurance agent has pleaded guilty
today to theft for stealing nearly $100,000
in insurance premium money from insurance
customers.
According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Greta Gooden Brown, Stacey Bates, 33,
of N. High Street, Millville, Cumberland
County, pleaded guilty before Cumberland
County Superior Court Judge John M. Waters,
Jr. to a criminal Accusation filed by
the Division of Criminal Justice - Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. The Accusation
charged Bates with theft by failure to
make required disposition of property
received (2nd degree). When sentenced
on March 10, Bates faces up to ten years
in state prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
Bates will also be required to forfeit
her license to sell insurance.
At the guilty plea hearing, Bates, the
owner/operator of Stacey Bates General
Insurance Agency located at 319 North
High Street in Millville, admitted that
she accepted insurance premiums from insurance
customers, primarily for automobile insurance,
and did not remit the insurance premium
money to the appropriate insurance carrier
so that the insurance customers had valid
insurance. An investigation by the Division
of Criminal Justice - Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor determined that Bates
took the insurance premium money from
more than 100 insurance customers, valued
at more than $99,000 and spent it for
her own purposes.
State Investigator Robert Stemmer, and
Supervising Deputy Attorney General Lewis
J. Korngut were assigned to the investigation
into this case. SDAG Korngut represented
the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
at the guilty plea hearing. The Department
of Banking and Insurance, the Cumberland
County Prosecutors Office and the Millville
Police Department assisted in the investigation.
Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Brown asks
that if anyone suspects they have been
defrauded by Stacey Bates and have not
reported it to law enforcement, please
contact State Investigator Robert Stemmer
at 609-896-8931.
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