Insurance adjuster charged with defrauding N.J. Turnpike Authority

An N.J. insurance adjuster has been charged with defrauding the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.

An insurance adjuster is charged with defrauding the N.J. Turnpike Authority and insurance companies of more than $200,000.

Robert Napolitano, 54, of Clifton, N.J., the owner of Dawn to Dusk LLC, investigated and provided adjusting services to property and casualty insurance carriers in New Jersey, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Here's more form the complaint:


From October 2011 to June 2013 Napolitano obtained by fraud more than $200,000 from the Turnpike Authority (NJTA) and certain insurance companies in several ways, including instructing insurance companies whose motorists caused damage to the N.J. Turnpike to issue checks payable to Dawn to Dusk. After the checks were mailed to Dawn to Dusk, Napolitano did not forward the payments to the NJTA and instead shared the money with his previously charged conspirator, Gerardo A. Blasi, an NJTA claims manager.

Blasi, 55, of Clifton, pleaded guilty Dec.11, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty to an information charging him with using the mails to facilitate a scheme and artifice to defraud the NJTA and certain insurance companies in connection with his theft of more than $1.5 million from the authority and the insurance companies. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 19, 2014.

The fraud count with which Napolitano is charged is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI Newark Field Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford, with the investigation leading to today’s charges.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney David L. Foster of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Special Prosecution’s Division.
Source Philadelphia Business Journal