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New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Files Action Against Florida Contractor and His Company for Allegedly Defrauding Seven Homeowners in Sandy Repairs, Including Three that Lost More than $314,000 in Federal Relief Funds
Richard R. Woodard, of Clearwater, Florida, and his company, Willwood Builders Corporation (“Willwood Builders”), took initial payments from consumers for home improvements or new construction and then failed to begin work, performed work in a substandard...
Ocean County Couple and Their Home Improvement Companies Charged With Stealing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars By Bilking Homeowners Whose Homes Were Badly Damaged by Superstorm Sandy – Victims paid Jeffrey Colmyer and Tiffany Cimino more than $1 million, mostly using Sandy relief funds
Jeffrey Colmyer, 41, and Tiffany Cimino, 43, who live together in Little Egg Harbor, N.J., were arrested yesterday by detectives of the Division of Criminal Justice on a range of charges, including theft, money laundering, and misconduct by a corporate official, all...
North Jersey Doctor Arrested for Allegedly Accepting Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Illegal Kickbacks, Three Other Professionals Plead Guilty to Related Fraud – Chiropractor was charged in ongoing investigation by Attorney General’s Commercial Bribery Task Force
The arrest is the latest action taken by the Attorney General’s Commercial Bribery Task Force (CBTF), which was formed in January to target commercial bribery in the healthcare industry. The task force includes deputy attorneys general and detectives from the...
Ocean County Corporation, Owner Plead Guilty in Workers Compensation Fraud Scheme that Bilked Nearly $600,000 from Insurance Carrier
TRENTON - Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced that an Ocean County electronic recycling company and its owner today admitted they bilked nearly $600,000 from an insurance carrier by providing false...
Appellate Panel Upholds DCR Ruling that Public School District Did Not Discriminate Against Teacher with Lupus
An educator in the Paterson school district since 1998, the teacher filed a Complaint with the Division on Civil Rights in December 2010. (The teacher’s identity is being withheld to protect her medical privacy.) The Complaint alleged that the Paterson school...