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DENVER — A postal worker who faked cancer to avoid going to work
won’t have to worry about going to work anymore.
Caroline Boyle, 60, was sentenced to five years of probation
with six months of home confinement and electronic monitoring.
She was also fined $10,000 and must serve 652 hours of community
service — one hour for every one she fraudulently took on leave.
The community service must be completed at a cancer treatment
center, cancer research center or hospice.
She also owes $20,798.38 in restitution to the U.S. Postal
Service. Boyle faced a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal
prison.
The Highlands Ranch woman had pleaded guilty to one count of
forgery. Prosecutors said she faked cancer beginning in June
2015 so she could claim 112 sicks days and be allowed to work
from home.
Investigators with the U.S. Postal Service Office of the
Inspector General discovered Boyle was forging doctors’ notes
and even misspelled the name of the oncologist she was
supposedly receiving treatment from.
According to the U.S. Attorney, Boyle decided to take some time
off work after she was not selected for a promotion she had
sought.
“To take the time off, she told her supervisor that she was
recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She then began to
take substantial amounts of sick leave,” according to a
statement from the U.S. Attorney.
In June, investigators began reviewing a doctor’s note that said
Boyle was being treated for lymphoma at Anova Cancer Center in
Lone Tree.
The note included a forged signature of Dr. Gregg Dickerson that
misspelled his name. Anova administrators told federal agents
that Boyle was not a patient of the clinic or Dickerson.
Investigators found additional doctor’s notes from Rocky
Mountain Cancer Centers in Lone Tree. But administrators said
she was never a patient.
Boyle had worked for the post office since 1991, most recently
as a purchasing specialist at a contracting and procurement
center in Aurora.
She did not have any customer-facing roles with the USPS.
“This type of behavior within the Postal Service is not
tolerated and the overwhelming majority of Postal Service
employees who serve the public are honest, hardworking, and
trustworthy individuals who would never consider engaging in
this type of criminal behavior,” the USPS said in a statement.
“Boyle continued the ruse until she was interviewed by an agent
of the Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General. It was
determined in the approximate 20 months that the defendant’s
fraud lasted, she used her non-existent cancer treatment to
support both unwarranted sick leave and unwarranted
accommodations allowing her to work part-time or work from home
five days a week.
“The defendant intended to continue using the fake illness until
her scheduled retirement in April 2017. Despite claiming the
cancer treatment had her too sick to work a regular schedule or
come into the office, Boyle was planning a post-retirement
cruise in Hawaii.”
http://kdvr.com/2017/04/28/postal-worker-pleads-guilty-to-faking-
cancer/
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