Font ResizeA Utah judge has sentenced Martin Joseph MacNeill, a Pleasant Grove physician and attorney, to a year in jail and six years of probation for insurance fraud.
Under a plea deal, the sentence will run concurrently with a four-year federal prison term that MacNeill is serving for identity theft.
In the 4th District state case, the doctor admitted falsely claiming a $10,000 loss from a burglary at his home. MacNeill, who pleaded guilty to felony charges of false and inconsistent statements, insurance fraud and forgery, was sentenced Monday by Judge Samuel McVey.
The 53-year-old -- who has served as a physician at Brigham Young University's health clinic and as director of medicine of the Utah State Developmental Center in American Fork -- has been in legal trouble for the past few years.
He was charged in 4th District Court in 2007 with second-degree forcible sex abuse and with tampering with a witness. Pleasant Grove police arrested MacNeill after an adult relative alleged he had put his hand down her pants and then asked her to sign a statement saying he did not touch her.
About a year later, prosecutors dismissed the charges. The same charges were filed again in January and the case is pending, according to court records.
Also in January, in an unrelated federal case, MacNeill was accused of helping his girlfriend obtain false military identifications and a Utah state identification card. He also allegedly helped her
MacNeill pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft and was sentenced in August by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson to the four-year prison term.
His girlfriend, Gypsy Jyll Willis, pleaded guilty to one count of identity theft and was sentenced Sept. 1 by Benson to 21 months behind bars. She was given until Oct. 15 to surrender to prison authorities but was arrested Sept. 10 at Salt Lake City International Airport and is now in custody, according to court records.
MacNeill, a BYU law school graduate, has been suspended from the practice of law in Utah for non-payment of his State Bar dues.
