Ex-postal worker nabbed for fraud on 'Price is Right' gets probation
A former Fayetteville postal carrier who pleaded guilty to worker's compensation fraud after being spotted on "The Price is Right" game show was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation.
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Cathy Wrench Cashwell claimed she injured her shoulder on the job in 2004, which prevented her from lifting mail trays into a postal truck, and she collected worker's compensation for the injury.
Cashwell's claim was called into question, however, during a September 2009 appearance on "The Price is Right," when she was able to spin the "big wheel" twice, according to a federal indictment.
The indictment also alleged that Cashwell and her husband went on a zipline as part of a Carnival Cruise vacation and that she was seen lifting and carrying furniture and bags of groceries on two different occasions in 2011.
She pleaded guilty to fraud in June.
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