New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw recently announced that an Atlantic County man was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay a total of $14,500 in restitution to the Borough of Buena and Ohio Casualty Insurance Company for filing a phony accident claim.
At his guilty plea hearing, Bruce Basile of Minotola admitted that he falsely claimed that he was thrown from his bicycle and lost his four front teeth when he rode over a loose piece of concrete sidewalk on July 27, 2001.
He then filed a lawsuit against the Borough of Buena and the owner of the property where he claimed the accident occurred. As a result of the phony claim, Basile was paid $4,500 by the Borough of Buena and $10,000 by Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, the homeowner's insurer.
Basile admitted that he did not lose his teeth in an accident on that date.
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