NJ Man Sentenced For Unlawfully Collecting Disability Insurance Benefits

According to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Riza Dagli, Thomas Gallo, 55, of Bayville, was sentenced today to three years of probation by Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels in Ocean County. Gallo was also ordered to pay full restitution to Freehold Cartage, Inc. New Jersey law provides that there is a presumption against any sentence of incarceration for a person convicted of a third-degree crime who has not previously been convicted of an indictable offense. The sentence was based on Gallo's Dec. 7 guilty plea to an accusation which charged him with third-degree theft by deception.

In pleading guilty, Gallo, a truck driver for Freehold Cartage, Inc., admitted that between Feb. 5 and Oct. 6, 2008, following an injury at work, he obtained $16,821.84 in fraudulent disability insurance claims from Freehold Cartage, Inc., even though he was working for another company and therefore not entitled to receive temporary disability benefits from Freehold Cartage.

Detective Natalie Brotherston and Deputy Attorney General Cheryl A. Maccaroni were assigned to the investigation. Maccaroni represented the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing. Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Dagli thanked Freehold Cartage, Inc. and ACE America/ESIS for their assistance in the investigation.

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