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For
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April
22, 2005
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Office
of The Attorney General
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Peter C. Harvey,
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
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Middlesex
County Man Sentenced to County Jail for
Automobile “Give Up” Fraud
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TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that a Middlesex
County man has been sentence to prison
for his role in an automobile “give
up” fraud.
According to Director McKoy and Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden-Brown, George
T. Guden, 58, Turner Street, Port Reading,
Middlesex County, was ordered by Middlesex
County Superior Court Judge Frederick
P. DeVesa to serve 364 days in Middlesex
County jail as a condition of a five-year
term of probation. In addition, Guden
was ordered to pay $4,000 restitution
and a $5,000 civil insurance fraud fine.
Guden’s wife, Angela M. Guden, 56,
same address, was ordered by Judge DeVesa
to serve four years probation and to pay
$4,000 restitution and a $5,000 civil
insurance fraud fine.
Fraud Prosecutor Gooden-Brown noted that
the Gudens pleaded guilty before Judge
DeVesa on Feb. 28 to a charge of conspiracy
to commit theft by deception. The Gudens
were initially charged on June 17, 2004,
via a Middlesex County Grand Jury indictment.
In pleading guilty, the Gudens admitted
that between January and March 2002, Angela
Guden reported that her Lincoln Mark VIII
car had been stolen from the Woodbridge
Mall. The stolen vehicle report was made
to the Woodbridge Police Department. It
was charged that Guden falsely reported
the car stolen in order to file an automobile
insurance theft claim with Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company. Liberty Mutual Insurance
Company subsequently paid more than $12,300
for the loss of the vehicle. An investigation
by the Division
of Criminal Justice - Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined
that George “Tommy” Guden
and Michael Guden, 26, same address, took
Angela Guden’s car and turned it
over to John E. Gassert, 49, Hancock,
New York. The Linclon was later recovered
in Gassert’s possession, who was
paid $100 by George Guden to dispose of
the car and promised another $125 when
the job was complete. Guden’s son,
Michael, and Gassert have been sentenced
for their roles in the scheme.
State Investigator Joseph Luccarelli,
Civil Investigator Gary Miller, and Deputy
Attorney General Valerie A. Noto were
assigned to the investigation.
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