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TagsNicole Victor, 38, of Paulsboro, was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson in Woodbury, according to state Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor. Victor was ordered to pay the $11,705 to the state and is permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey. She pleaded guilty on July 19 to second-degree official misconduct.
Victor was an HEA administrator in the Paulsboro office of Tri-County Community Action, the local agency handling heating assistance applications in Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland counties. In pleading guilty, Victor admitted that between June 2005 and May 2008, she used her position to file fictitious applications to generate benefits for herself. She admitted she fraudulently obtained the $11,705 by filing three false applications.
Victor worked for Tri-County from September 2002 through May 2008. She was hired as an HEA aide, and became a supervisor in 2004.
Three other local administrators of the HEA Program have been charged with fraud involving the program as a result of investigations by the Division of Criminal Justice and the Department of Community Affairs.
Constance Campbell, 25, of Chester, Pa., a former HEA manager for Tri-County's Salem and Gloucester County offices, pleaded guilty to official misconduct and was sentenced to five years in prison. Charges are pending against a third women, Denise Nicole Johnson, 36, of Paulsboro, a former administrator in Tri-County's Paulsboro office, and Marvin Laws, 55, of Atlantic City, who was employed as an HEA benefits manager by Atlantic Human Resources, a nonprofit contracted by the DCA to administer the HEA program in Atlantic County. In addition, Thomas J. Harris, 67, of Woolwich, the owner of a Paulsboro-based heating oil company, was sentenced to four years in prison as a result of the investigations.Deputy Attorneys General David M. Fritch and Robert Czepiel prosecuted the case. The probe was conducted Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau by Lt. Keith Lerner, Sgt. Robert Ferriozzi, Det. Andrea Salvatini, Det. Anthony Luyber, Deputy Chief of Detectives Neal Cohen, and Analyst Alison Callery.
– TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
