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Bergen County Insurance Agent Teamed Up With MSU Police Officer To Defraud Victim: Prosecutor

A Bergen County insurance agent created false documents to help a Long Valley business owner defraud a client at his painting business, authorities in Morris County said.

Morris County Prosecutor's Office

Morris County Prosecutor's Office

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Michael McFadden, a 54-year-old New Milford resident and insurance agent at Insuranze Associates in Hasbrouck Heights, created false documents claiming Long Valley's Christopher Angst had a workman's compensation coverage policy, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll and Morris County Chief of Detectives Robert McNally said.

Angst, 48, is the owner of C&E Professional Painting in Long Valley, and a police officer with the Montclair University Police Department, Carroll and McNally said. 

Angst falsely presented his painting business to a client as being insured, and those documents were unknowingly submitted to an insurance carrier by the client, Carroll and McNally said. In exchange for the phony policy,  Angst gifted McFadden a gold Police Benevolent Association card, Carroll and McNally said.

Angst and McFadden were charged with insurance fraud in the third degree, tampering with records, and forgery. 

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