North Jersey Resident Sentenced For Auto, Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud

A 32-year-old Perth Amboy man has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for swindling insurers, a credit union and his employer out of more than $600,000 in two separate fraud plots. Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor said Vinny Curbelo, 32, was sentenced by Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Michael Toto, sitting here. Last month, Curbelo pleaded guilty to seven charges related to the scams, insurance fraud, healthcare claims fraud, theft by deception and money laundering.