Unemployment Compensation Board of Review v. Anderson

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Mary Anderson (claimant) appeals from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to deny benefits. We also affirm, but on different grounds.

The claimant was discharged by her employer, Westinghouse Electric Corp., after she had been convicted and sentenced for unlawfully setting up a lottery and selling lottery tickets, activities which she conducted on her employer’s premises. Following her discharge, she applied for unemployment compensation benefits which were denied by the Bureau of Employment Security pursuant…