Facebook Post Leads Ohio Investigators To Comp Fraudster

A Cincinnati (Hamilton County) woman was brought to justice in Ohio after workers’ compensation investigators spotted a Facebook post where she had publicly tagged herself at a Wal-Mart store in Alabama. Angela Knapper was sentenced Nov. 18, 2014 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas for working while receiving workplace injury benefits. She pleaded guilty to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a first-degree misdemeanor.BWC began investigating Knapper when its Special Investigations Department identified that she earned wages while receiving disability benefits.