A look at other comp fraud cases

A surveillance camera at the center recorded the student running from a classroom but “the video shows clearly from multiple angles … that there was no physical contact of any nature between Ms. Musgrove and the juvenile male during the attempted escape,” according to a court affidavit.

Musgrove, 58, pleaded guilty in 2010 and agreed to repay almost $400 in restitution. She also agreed to be on probation for three years. Despite her guilty plea, she said in an interview last week that the student did run into her and that the video must have been doctored somehow to remove the collision.

“Why would I lie if I knew there were cameras there?” she said. “I took the rap for something I didn't do.”

Gosney

Pamela Gosney, 52, was accused of deliberately running into a cleaning cart that was propping open a restroom door at Dish Network in Tulsa in 2010.

Video from a surveillance camera shows her going in and out of the restroom, getting a drink from the water fountain and looking in both directions. She then deliberately “bulldozed” into the cleaning cart and hit the floor on her right side, according to a court affidavit.

Gosney, of Tulsa, pleaded guilty to the felony in October. She agreed to spend five years on probation and pay $6,479 in restitution.

“I filed a workmen's comp action as a result of an alleged injury I sustained at work to my left leg,” she said in her plea paperwork. “In reality, I suffered no injury at work but pretended to have a fall. I was caught on camera. I committed fraud to have workers' comp cover an old injury.”

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