Leroy Barnes (pictured), a dancing hamster on the wildly popular Kia car commercials, is reportedly facing disability fraud charges for collecting in excess of $51,000 in benefits over a year’s time, starting in September 2010. The actor/dancer who was reportedly arrested in March, allegedly lied to doctors that he was unemployed so they’d sign off on his collecting state disability insurance benefits, according to a press release by the California Department of Insurance (CDI).
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CDI documents state that the 27-year-old performer was working as a dancer for John Cossette Productions four years ago, when he claimed to have been injured by a piece of ceiling that fell and struck him during a soundcheck.
The government agency reportedly discovered that during the time Barnes was supposed to be collecting disability payments, he had actually been working, and as a matter of fact, the famed Kia gig was one of his jobs.
The insurance agency also reportedly stumbled upon information that Barnes had been performing under the stage name of MoWii in a rap group called “The Rej3ctz,” where he helped to record the song “Cat Daddy.”
Watch “Cat Daddy” here:
Kia Hamster Facing Disability Fraud Charges was originally published on wzakcleveland.com
