A Dobbs Ferry woman allegedly made more than $100,000 in false medical insurance claims, the Westchester District Attorney's Office said.
Jackie Crino, 46, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 8, and arraigned in Dobbs Ferry Village Court on multiple felony charges. The top charges - second-degree grand larceny, second-degree insurance fraud and second-degree health care fraud - are each punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Between May 2022 and February 2025 Crino allegedly used false invoices for medical services that were never performed to support insurance claims.
She sought $16,737.13 from UnitedHealthcare in 2022 and 2023 and $86,270.02 from Cigna Health and Life Insurance in 2024 and 2025, according to an investigation by the DA's forensic accountant
Michael Frenza.
Crino received "reimbursements" totaling $99,007.15.
District Attorney Susan Cacace said in a news release that Crino's alleged scheme helped her unlawfully profit off the insurance companies and their customers.
UnitedHealthcare’s Special Investigative Unit referred the case to the DA's Economic Crimes Bureau, which investigated along with the New York State Department of Financial Services.
In addition to the top charges, Crino was charged with third- and fourth-degree health care fraud, third-degree grand larceny, third-degree insurance fraud, second-degree forgery, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and first-degree scheme to defraud, all felonies.
None of the charges are bail eligible so Village Justice David Koenigsberg released Crino and scheduled her next court appearance for Oct. 22.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Dobbs Ferry woman allegedly bilked insurance companies out of $100,000
