The employee of mail from Colorado who pretended to be sick to not go to work, guilty under article about fraud.
60-year-old Caroline Boyle was ordered to pay a fine in the amount of 10 000 US dollars and another 20 798 dollars as compensation to the postal service co, reports local news site.
Starting in 2015, Boyle told his colleagues that she had cancer: a disease attacking her body, destroying the immune system, and she was too weak to come to work.
Boyle had forged the certificate of a physician stating that she was sick of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and used them to take sick leave. All the woman have missed almost 20 months.
Boyle had planned to use this trick until her retirement in April 2017. This event she was going to celebrate with a cruise to Hawaii.
She admitted to investigators in the fraud after they presented her with irrefutable evidence that she didn’t have cancer.
U.S. district judge Raymond P. Moore, in addition to a fine, sentenced the woman to 652 hours of public works at the center for research and treatment of cancer — as much as she missed at work.
