Posted on 06/04/2013 12:21:04 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
A postal worker claiming disability benefits after injuring herself on the job has been accused of being a liar after she appeared on The Price is Right and spun the 'big wheel' twice without difficulty.
Cathy Wrench Cashwell, a grandmother from Fayetteville, North Carolina, said that she was unable to lift trays of mail after she hurt her shoulder while at work in 2004.
But she pleaded guilty to fraud in federal court on Monday after an indictment claimed she appeared physically well while on the game show in September 2009.
It explained that she 'raised her left arm above her head and gripped the handle with her left hand' during her first spin of the wheel, WRAL reported. On the second spin, she 'raised both arms above her head and gripped the same handle with both hands', the September 2012 indictment added.
But the game show, where contestants guess the prices of items and then spin the wheel for more money, was not the only time Cashwell was caught allegedly swindling her employers.
In August 2010, she allegedly went zip-lining on a Carnival Cruise vacation, and in 2011, she was seen lifting furniture and bags of groceries with both of her arms.
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Tip of iceberg.
Looks as though the disability “Cash well” has dried up.
I know , I know PU.
Hell, I know public union employees on disability that are competitive in Ironman competitions...
And the practice is rampant too. This one just got caught because she was dumb enough to be seen on tv. Finding a sympathetic doctor to make the diagnosis of a work related injury when the bennies max-out is also widespread and routine in the firefighter/cop areas too. The private sector taxpayers are being fleeced on an industrial scale. The Auschwitz of insurance fraud.
In a major city that I won’t name they have more firefighters on disability than firefighters who are not on disability — and they don’t have that many fires to fight.
Union.
Bingo
Should have gone on Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy instead.
Oh, wait, you said Unionized Public Employee...
Impossible because insurance fraud is illegal.
Well come on man, collecting tickets would cripple anybody!
She would still have to move her arm to spin the wheel on wheel of fortune, unless she brought a designated spinner.
She must be a Republican or Libertarian or donated to Romney.
continued . . or she would never have been accused much less prosecuted.
you can tell which ones are them.
they complain about not coming in first and not getting a trophy as being ‘unfair’.
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