Insurance Fraud Conviction Requires Dismissal of Government Employee

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After Conviction for Fraud State Employee Demands Her Job Back

Fatu Rimbert appealed from a November 12, 2019 final administrative decision of the Civil Service Commission (Commission) affirming her removal as a family service worker for the County of Essex (County), Department of Citizen Services, Division of Family Assistance and Benefits (DFAB). In The Matter Of Fatu Rimbert, Essex County Department Of Citizen Services, No. A-1684-19, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (August 18, 2021) was asked to reinstate the job from which she was fired.

ZALMA OPINION

There is something very wrong in the system of dealing with employees when a governmental entity is required to conduct an administrative hearing, then a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge who bent over backward to find a way to keep an insurance fraud criminal in her state job, a decision made by the commission, and then deal with an appeal before it could effectively fire a person convicted of the crime of insurance fraud from a job that allowed her to view the personal financial and tax records of citizens. Insurance fraud is a serious crime of moral turpitude and no one convicted of that crime should be allowed to work for a governmental entity and there should be no need to jump through multiple loops to fire the convicted criminal.