Dumb Criminals: Woman Who Cheated On Welfare Caught By IRS After Price Is Right Appearance

[Initech]

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.

Federal investigators say Cashwell knowingly lied when she wrote on her worker's compensation paperwork in September 2011 that she couldn't stand, sit, kneel, squat, climb, bend, reach or grasp.

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[Auggie]

1. I wonder how long she could have gotten away with the deception

had she not appeared on television? Kudos to whoever nailed her. Need more of these convictions ... along with Medicare fraud.

[TxDemChem]

2. Many years ago when my mom was still in the insurance field,

Her company hired people to check up on suspect claims. The things people tried to get away with! But this is a whole different (and more hilarious) case of getting caught commuting fraud.