Collete Lee, a Baltimore postal worker, thought she had the government fooled as she collected a quarter of a million dollars in both disability checks and food stamps for six straight years.

Then U.S. Postal Service inspector general investigators observed her running, jumping and riding a bike — despite years of claiming she was unable to even shop for groceries unaided. That was the beginning of the end for another Federal Employees Compensation Act scam.

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