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Tuesday May 2 8:04 AM ET

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.

Speak your mind Discuss this story with other people. [Start a Conversation] (Requires Yahoo! Messenger) 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.

-- Maya (Maya@eck.ist), May 06, 2000