Posted on 06/04/2013 8:45:18 PM PDT by Arthurio
GREENVILLE, N.C. — A former Fayetteville postal carrier who was receiving worker's compensation payments after injuring herself on the job pleaded guilty to fraud in federal court Monday.
Cathy Wrench Cashwell's claim that she couldn't lift mail trays into a truck due to a 2004 on-the-job shoulder injury was called into question in September 2009 when she appeared on "The Price is Right" and spun the "big wheel" twice.
According to an indictment filed in September 2012, Cashwell "raised her left arm above her head and gripped the handle with her left hand." On a second spin, she "raised both arms above her head and gripped the same handle with both hands."
In August 2010, the indictment alleges, Cashwell and her husband went ziplining as part of a Carnival Cruise vacation. She was also seen lifting and carrying furniture and bags of groceries with both arms on two different occasions in 2011.
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Hmmmm.... As the big wheel turns.
Good to see they still tail people to check up on them. Had one guy back in the early 90s that was collecting worker’s comp, supposedly hurt too badly to work, yet they caught him on video hoisting his lawnmower in and out of his truck in order to mow lawns for 5 different people in a single day.
“I couldn’t decide between collecting stamps or bugs. So I stamp on bugs.”
Calvin, to Hobbes
Judge, tell her what she’s won !
I have to say, spinning the Big Wheel on a game show one time in your life is not the same as lifting mail trays into a truck all day every day.
I can’t help but wonder if before they let her go to pasture they didn’t try and find her something to do that didn’t involve lifting. There must be other jobs, like working the front desk, for example.
She probably won a brand spanking new payment plan to pay it all back, plus any added fines and interest. Ouch!
In August 2010, the indictment alleges, Cashwell and her husband went ziplining as part of a Carnival Cruise vacation. She was also seen lifting and carrying furniture and bags of groceries with both arms on two different occasions in 2011.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I saw that. Of course, ziplining, you’re in a harness.
A year later she carried a bag of groceries. Again, that doesn’t mean she could load trays into a truck all day every day which is why I ask (rhetorically) if they couldn’t have found her something to do that didn’t involve lifting. Like working the front desk.
Its funny, around here I occasionally have to do some heavy lifting, we’ll round up a bunch of guys with bad backs, bad knees, a sad-looking bunch of wore-out cowpokes we all are. We get it done, and suffer the next day. But we’re not doing it all day every day.
On the other hand, in my office life, you’ll occasionally meet people working there who wound up there when they were injured and forced to find another way to make a living. So, if she can’t load trucks, I don’t see why she couldn’t work at another position in the postal service.
5 million on disability...........uh huh
Great!
Now, on to the 10 million or so who had their lawyers get them permanent social security disability, so they can suck off our teat for the rest of their lives.
Any and every disability award should be reauthorized every 2?, 4?, 5?, years with the sad soul having to rent their wheel chair for the day to appear in front of a VA type doctor for recertification!
I’d say 20 years milking cows at Lompoc should fix ‘em up real good.. give em a special suite there so they can cry on each others shoulders at night.
That’d be EIGHT years of worker’s comp payments... Any ‘Parting Gifts’? Fines? Jail time?
Y’all let me know.
Disgusting - as those kind of fraudulent claims and the “marginal creep” in the DSM 5 definition of mental illness will eventually cause those who have a true inability to work to lose the “benefit” they paid for via FICA.
Yeh, you would think, but the clerks are part of a different union and would never allow crossing crafts. They might have had her doing some office type of work within her craft, in the beginning, but not for as long as she was determined unable to work. She was probably determined permanently disabled and thought it was safe to go back to a normal life. Too bad for her.
And no comity between unions. Hmm.
I hope she won big on the game show.
It’s called insurance fraud. Not just a small fib here and there, we’re talking making a lucrative living off it. Big $$ in meds etc...drs. and bone benders on the payroll, etc. Government workers play this very well.
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