Fraud of the Week

January 25, 2016

Workers Compensation Fraud—California

Amount: $24,000

 

A man who portrayed one of the dancing hamsters for the KIA Souls commercials has been sentenced to ninety days of electronic monitoring, 400 hours of community service, and to pay $24,000 in restitution for receiving disability payments while working as a dancer. He claimed he was injured by material that fell from a ceiling in 2010 and claimed to be unable to work while he was dancing as a KIA hamster and as a backup dancer for Madonna, Kelly Rowland, and Chris Brown.

 

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