A former Cingular employee who pleaded guilty in Cayuga County Court Tuesday to stealing $29,310 in cell phones from his former employer was charged with insurance fraud by the state police in Lyons on Wednesday, accused of claiming $233,000 in reimbursements for unrendered medical services.

According to a news release from the New York State Insurance Department, Ryan T. Breen, 29 of 1209 Wiley Road, Savannah, is accused of using the name of a former massage therapist to sign off on paperwork in order to claim reimbursements for medical treatment.

Breen is accused of submitting 113 claim forms to United Healthcare Insurance for holistic treatments he claimed to have received over a three-year period staring in February 2005, the Insurance Department said. Investigators believe Breen never received treatment.

The investigation began when the medical facility Breen listed on one of the forms contacted the insurance company about a payment it received but had not requested. Until then, Breen had received direct payments from the insurer.

Breen was also charged with grand larceny and forgery and was released from the Wayne County Jail after posting $10,000 cash bail.

The arrest came a day after Breen pleaded guilty in Cayuga County Court to third-degree grand larceny for stealing more than 150 cell phones from a Cingular vendor in Auburn's Wal-Mart.

Breen, who was fired by Cingular before the thefts occurred, admitted to using his inside knowledge about the business to convince a salesman he still worked for the company and that he needed the phones to make upgrades for his clients.

While Breen talked to the same salesman each time, he said that person did not know he was selling the phones on e-Bay and keeping the money.

Cayuga County District Attorney Jon Budelmann said Breen had been promised either a three-year conditional discharge or five years of probation in addition to 150 hours of community service when he is sentenced on June 9 because he paid back the money for the stolen phones.

Budelmann said he did not know how Breen came up with $29,310.

With the new charges in Wayne County, Budelmann said he will recommend that Breen receives five years of probation, but that the final decision will be up to the judge.

"He's obviously fairly slick to get away with it that many times without getting caught ... We will probably recommend probation so that we can keep an eye on him longer," Budelmann said Thursday.

Either way, Budelmann said it may be a moot point if Breen is convicted in Wayne County because he could face up to 15 years in prison for the charges he faces there.