Joe Biden’s niece dodges jail after $100K credit card scam

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New York Post
Rebecca Rosenberg
June 9, 2017

The wild-child niece of former Veep Joe Biden stole more than $100,000 in a credit card scam — and quietly cut a plea deal in Manhattan court that spares her any jail time, The Post has learned.

Using a borrowed credit card, the blonde Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, and racked up the six-figure bill over the course of a year, according to a criminal complaint that does not name the victim card owner.

As part of a plea deal before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Kevin McGrath, Biden, 29, pleaded guilty to one charge of grand larceny and another of petit larceny and agreed to make restitution of $110,810.04.

More... http://nypost.com/2017/06/09/joe-bidens-niece-dodges-jail-after-100k-credit-card-scam/

[Oceander]

How do you run up a $100k tab at a pharmacy - or any single store that doesn't cater solely to the Uber-rich - in one year?

[endicom]

How do you run up a $100k tab at a pharmacy - or any single store that doesn't cater solely to the Uber-rich - in one year?

Well, there's rehab and then there's rehab and that might answer your question.

[Sighlass]

How do you run up a $100k tab at a pharmacy - or any single store that doesn't cater solely to the Uber-rich - in one year?

Meth ingredients is all I could think of.

[endicom]

Meth ingredients is all I could think of.

Meth is declasse. People of stature have FDA approved substances to abuse.

[Frank Cannon]

How do you run up a $100k tab at a pharmacy - or any single store that doesn't cater solely to the Uber-rich - in one year?

Internet account?

[Oceander]

If she weren't Bidens close relative, and wealthy, she'd be looking at at least 1 year in the stony lonesome. 

[endicom]

If she weren't Bidens close relative, and wealthy, she'd be looking at at least 1 year in the stony lonesome.

The "Bridge of Sighs", connecting the 1902 Tombs prison at left with the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts building at right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tombs

[Oceander]

The "Bridge of Sighs", connecting the 1902 Tombs prison at left with the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts building at right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tombs

If she got time she might have gone to the prison out in Queens near Laguardia community college.  The Tombs are largely used as a holding pen for the courts (e.g., while awaiting arraignment) and not for serving sentences

[endicom]

If she got time she might have gone to the prison out in Queens near Laguardia community college.  The Tombs are largely used as a holding pen for the courts (e.g., while awaiting arraignment) and not for serving sentences

I don't recall any actual prisons in Queens and nothing in Long Island City. Even Rikers is not classified as a prison.

[Oceander]

I don't recall any actual prisons in Queens and nothing in Long Island City. Even Rikers is not classified as a prison.

The one I was thinking of is Queensborough correctional facility, but that may be men only.  There's also Lincoln Correctional facility in Manhattan.  Apparently there is also a floating prison in NYC: the Vernon c. Bain correctional center, although that may also be a temporary holding point now. 

At any rate, wherever she would have gone, it wouldn't be the Tombs.