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Last updated: Tuesday - 12:25 05/02/2000, EST
Woman Convicted in Penile Implant Fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A married New York woman was convicted on Monday of fraud and
forgery after billing her illicit lover's $15,000 penile implant to her insurance company by claiming he
was her husband.
A Manhattan jury took less than an hour to convict Jeane Lewis, 43, of the charges.
Her boyfriend, Andre Dovilas, 44, who also was charged, has fled to Haiti with the implanted
evidence, officials said.
The plot unraveled when Lewis' husband was opening the mail and discovered bills and
correspondence from the hospital and the urologist where Dovilas, pretending to be Lewis, had
gone for treatment.
The husband alerted police and his wife's labor union, Local 1199, which represents and insures
health care workers.
Lewis will be sentenced on June 15. She faces up to seven years in prison. |
