A former Bucks County insurance broker who helped hundreds of New Yorkers pass themselves off as Pennsylvanians to get cheaper car insurance rates was sent to prison Monday for at least eight months. Michael J. Bozzi, 48, former owner of Bucks County Insurance in Morrisville, was sentenced to serve eight to 23 months in the Bucks County prison by Judge Jeffrey L. Finley. A former employee, Joshua Green, 28, of Morrisville, received three to 23 months; and a third man, Alexander Bien-Aime, 58, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was given 111/2 to 23 months.
All three had pleaded guilty in Bucks County Court to 11 counts including insurance fraud, theft by deception and unlawful use of computers, said Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert LaBar, who prosecuted the case. Authorities said that in 2005 and 2006, the men used false Pennsylvania addresses or post office box numbers to obtain Pennsylvania insurance cards and vehicle registrations for New York residents, many of them from the Little Haiti section of New York City. The scam cost insurance companies more than $500,000, prosecutors said.