TRENTON - Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced that the former owner and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Camden mental health counseling center has been sentenced to state prison after being convicted of submitting more than $137,900 in fraudulent bills to the Medicaid Program.
The Medicaid Program, which is funded by the state and federal governments, provides health care services and prescription drugs to persons who may not otherwise be able to afford such services and medicines. The State of New Jersey administers the Medicaid Program through the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services and through the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s Medicaid Fraud Section, which investigates both criminal and civil Medicaid fraud.
According to Vaughn L. McKoy, Director, Division of Criminal Justice, and Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden-Brown, Eliezer Martinez, 57, Arthur Avenue, Camden, former owner and chief executive officer of Hispanic Counseling Center and Family Services of New Jersey, Inc., Camden, was sentenced on Jan. 21 by Camden County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Brown, Jr. to five years in state prison and was ordered to pay more than $275,900 in criminal fines and $137,900 in restitution. On Oct. 27, 2004, Martinez was convicted by a Camden County jury on charges contained in a May 31, 2002 State Grand Jury indictment filed by the Division of Criminal Justice - Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. The indictment charged Martinez with Health Care Claims Fraud (2nd degree) and Medicaid Fraud (3rd degree).
Corzine-Kushner group crunching numbers to make offer for Nets
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Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) and real estate magnate Charles Kushner, leaders of a New Jersey investor group vying to buy the Nets, hunkered down yesterday with their lawyers, accountants and bankers to decide how much to offer for the team.
A principal owner of YankeeNets, which owns the basketball team, said the meetings in Morristown would continue through the Labor Day weekend. By the middle of next week, he said, the group would decide how much to pay and where the team would play its home games -- the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford or a proposed Newark arena.