{"id":13583,"date":"2018-10-17T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:28:12","slug":"brick-hasnt-collected-restitution-payment-made-by-employee-who-ran-900k-insurance-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/10\/brick-hasnt-collected-restitution-payment-made-by-employee-who-ran-900k-insurance-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Hasn’t Collected Restitution Payment Made by Employee Who Ran $900K Insurance Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kim E. Bogan (Photo: NJ OAG)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick officials say the township has yet to see any restitution payments from Kim Bogan, the ex-employee who pleaded guilty to embezzling $941,354 by submitting phony insurance claims, even though she made an initial payment.<\/p>\n

Bogan, the daughter of former mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli \u2013 who himself served a jail term on corruption charges \u2013 was released from prison last week, just 10 months into a five year sentence she received following a plea deal<\/a>. Bogan was released under an intensive supervision program that allows her to be freed with the conditions that she obtain employment and wear an ankle bracelet monitoring device. But Bogan\u2019s sentence also contained the order that she repay the township all of the money she funneled to her brother, a chiropractor in New York City who committed suicide months before Bogan\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Bogan, whose employment with the township was terminated Aug. 18, 2017, made a $5,000 restitution payment when she was sentenced, but the money never made it to the township\u2019s coffers, said Business Administrator Joanne Bergin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of her sentencing, she provided a first restitution payment of $5,000,\u201d said Bergin. \u201cThat check was written out to the State of New Jersey, and we were hoping they would turn around and submit that to the township.\u201d<\/p>\n

State officials, however, instructed Bogan to rewrite the check to the order to Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are obviously looking to confirm when that was credited or would be credited,\u201d Bergin said.<\/p>\n

Brick Township does not participate in the state employee health insurance plan. Instead, the township\u2019s municipal government is self-insured. While Horizon acts as a plan administrator, medical claims are paid with township funds, meaning that any fraudulent claims were paid directly by taxpayers. Bergin said she suspects there may be some confusion on the part of state agencies as to how municipal self-insurance operates.<\/p>\n

Township officials are working with their state counterparts to track the payment that was reportedly already made.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Bogan] was released on intense supervised probation, which has significant layers to it in order to be compliant with the program,\u201d said Bergin. \u201cA big part of this is how she intends to facilitate the restitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, Bogan, 53, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft by deception on Oct. 24, 2017. Under state law, she is ineligible for public employment in New Jersey. Shorebeat has contacted the relevant state agencies to determine the status of her pension.<\/p>\n

During her plea hearing last year, Bogan, who worked in the township\u2019s Building Department, admitted that between January 2011 and April 2017 she assisted her brother, Dr. Glenn Scarpelli \u2013 a chiropractor who committed suicide during the summer of 2017<\/a> by jumping out of a New York City building \u2013 in submitting false claims to her employee health insurance program. The claims were for treatments purportedly rendered to individuals covered under Bogan\u2019s policy, however they were found to be bogus.<\/p>\n

Scarpelli, Bogan\u2019s father, served an 18-month jail term after admitting to extortion and bribery charges stemming from a relationship with an unnamed real estate developer in 2007.<\/p>\n

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