FORMER STATE EMPLOYEE SENTENCED FOR
FELONY INSURANCE FRAUD

Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced today that Jonathan Mosley, 38, of Baltimore City, was sentenced by Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts on four counts of felony insurance fraud. Judge Ballou-Watts sentenced Mosley to five years in jail, suspending that sentence in favor of 18 months of supervised probation. He was also ordered to perform 112 hours of community service. Mosley had been charged with submitting false and misleading statements and documentation to Farmers’ New Century Insurance Company in support of a personal injury insurance claim while he was employed with the Department of Juvenile Justice as an Addiction Counselor.

At trial, evidence had been presented that, between the dates of November 27, 2000 and February 23, 2001, Jonathan Mosley submitted various fraudulent documents in support of an insurance claim for lost wages incurred after he was involved in an automobile accident in May 2000. The false submissions included a fraudulent letter and other documents, purportedly from the Department of Juvenile Justice, mis-classifying his position, misrepresenting his salary and falsely indicating that he missed three months of work immediately after his accident. Mosley also created and submitted fraudulent tax forms to support a lost wage claim concerning a private business he owned.

The convictions followed a joint investigation conducted by the Insurance Fraud Division of the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Office of the Attorney General.

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