TRENTON — A former resident of Long Branch today, Oct. 13, admitted that he collected Social Security disability checks paid to his wife for more than four years after she died, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Brian Unger, 64, who is now a resident of Rincon, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in federal court in Trenton, to an information charging him with one count of theft of government money.
Unger, according to officials in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, had a political career while a resident of Long Branch. His background included his loss in a bid to become mayor of Long Branch in 2010.
