Nuno Fernandez, 38, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, admitted stealing health insurance reimbursement checks from a Hudson County medical practice for over four years. According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, Fernandez was the office manager for a medical practice in North Bergen, New Jersey, where he handled and reconciled reimbursement checks that the practice received from healthcare benefit programs for medical services it provided. Starting in April 2012, Fernandez began stealing some of the checks by endorsing them in his own name and depositing them into his personal bank account using an application on his mobile telephone. No one at the medical practice authorized Fernandez to deposit the checks into his personal bank account. Fernandez continued to steal checks from the practice until March 2016. In total, Fernandez stole over $840,000.
