How not to fake an injury
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:03 pm
Appearing on national television was probably not the wisest choice:
A North Carolina woman's workers' compensation claim was exposed as a fraud when she appeared on The Price is Right and spun the "big wheel" twice.
Cathy Wrench Cashwell, a former mail carrier, claimed she couldn't lift mail trays into a truck due to an on-the-job shoulder injury in 2004, WRAL reports. She pleaded guilty to fraud on Monday.
In September 2009, Cashwell appeared on The Price is Right, where she "raised her left arm above her head and gripped the handle with her left hand," according to an indictment filed last fall. On a second spin, "she raised both arms above her head and gripped the same handle with both hands."
Cashwell was later spotted zip-lining on vacation with her husband in 2010 and lifting and carrying bags of groceries with both arms in 2011.
Federal investigators said Cashwell lied on her workers' compensation claim when she wrote she couldn't stand, sit, kneel, squat, climb, bend, reach or grasp.