Sentenced in Toms River to 3 years probation
An Ocean County man was sentenced to three years of probation Friday for fraudulently obtaining more than $16,000 in disability insurance benefits.Thomas Gallo, 55, of Bayville, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels in Tom River, according to state Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Riza Dagli,
Gallo was also ordered to pay full restitution to Freehold Cartage Inc., his former employer.
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, 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 the company, even though he was working for another company and was not entitled to receive temporary benefits.
