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Tommie Lee Robinson, 55, can no longer rely on his claim as a financial cane, since the California Department of Insurance Fraud investigators caught him walking without his cane.

Robinson received a 100 percent disability rating, which would have earned him $20,000 per year after he allegedly injured his back working as a Quality Control Inspector at Cherokee International, in Irvine.

He eventually underwent surgery, and in a deposition stated he always had to use a cane to walk.

But during a two-month investigation, officials videotaped Robinson walking without a cane and not exhibiting any signs of pain or discomfort.

The tape was shown to the treating physician who after observing the footage reduced Robinson’s disability rating to 24 percent.

The rating adjustment saved the carrier approximately $250,000.  Robinson still got $14,500 from a settlement, but on Sept. 17 he was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay $11,562 in restitution, $200 in fines, and serve three years formal probation.