Meet ex-correctional officer John Smiley and his wife Cynthia Biasi-Smiley. The Smiley’s are charged with fraud after John said a parolee shot and paralyzed him at a restaurant. “Lying” John and his lil wife were actually at a sex club when he was shot… and you wont believe why:
After he was shot and paralyzed, John Alfonzo Smiley’s co-workers banded together to support him, donating vacation and sick time to help him. State corrections workers donated $30,000 to the 44-year-old correctional officer after hearing he had been shot by a parolee while leaving a San Francisco restaurant in April 2008. Golf tournaments organized in North Carolina and Stockton raised thousands more, and a Web site was set up to accept donations and keep supporters apprised of his medical progress.
But authorities say they may have been duped about how Smiley ended up paralyzed below his waist.
Court records say Smiley was shot in the predawn hours of April 27, 2008, after going to a swingers club with his 36-year-old wife, where they engaged in sex with strangers. A dispute arose after Smiley’s condom broke while he was having sex with a woman he had just met, and her companion later confronted Smiley outside and shot him, court records indicate. The gunman was never caught.
Eleven months later, Smiley filed a workers’ compensation claim saying he was gunned down by a parolee, and the state began processing a claim that could have paid him $2.5 million.
Instead, the 6-foot-8-inch former college basketball star and his wife each face five felony counts and began their odyssey through the court system Wednesday morning surrounded by reporters, cameras and gawkers.
Some people who e-mailed or posted comments online to The Bee after the Smiley story was first reported Tuesday indicated they had donated to his cause but knew nothing about the sex-club allegations. The Web site, http://www.jsmiley.org, contains updates about his medical costs, provides information on how to donate money and indicates that the second annual John Smiley Golf Tournament at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton raised $11,000.
It was held Nov. 6, about two weeks before the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation opened a criminal investigation into his claims. Before that, the state had been working to reach a settlement of his claim, records indicate.
The Web site describes how “as a decorated Corrections officer in California his size helped him safely transport dangerous inmates, quell large riots, and prevent escapes.”
In a section titled “John’s story, in his own words,” Smiley recounts spending April 26, 2008, in San Francisco at the zoo with his wife and two children and his in-laws.
“This wonderful afternoon was followed by a great dinner and an announcement that the grandparents would watch the kids so Cindy and I could have a long overdue night out together,” he wrote. “Of course, I had no idea that our lives would change forever on that day.”
The site does not mention the alleged visit to Twist, a sex club that Smiley later told investigators he had found out about on the Internet, court records indicate.
SMH. What a feeble attempt to come up.
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