Greta Gooden Brown of Plainsboro is the new insurance fraud prosecutor. The former head of the Prosecutors and Police Bureau of the Division of Criminal Justice, she has served the Division of Criminal Justice for 18 years. She was formerly the section chief of the Medicaid Fraud Section and prior to that section chief of the Institutional Abuse Unit. She began her career as a deputy attorney general in the Appellate Bureau.
Gooden Brown, 43, who will supervise 26 employees, will oversee the investigation of all types of insurance fraud, and will service as the focal point for criminal, civil, and administrative investigations and prosecutions of insurance and Medicaid fraud within the state.##M:[more]##
She is the second insurance fraud prosecutor since the office was created in 1998. She succeeds Edward M. Nearsey, who left in August to assume the position of State Inspector General.