Woman gets slap on wrist for $1.5M embezzlement

Return of the King writes "It seems that judges are reluctant to view women guilty of committing crimes without a man involved. In this case a woman embezzled more than $1.5 million from a credit union and bought more than 1,500 items, including hundreds of pairs of shoes and a $60,000 swimming pool, and was sentenced to a mere 27 months in prison (this is what men get for petty theft). The judge stated from the bench "You have a small fish here. Where are the big fish? No one else has been charged with a parking ticket in this case...? Translation: no men to blame? Also, this is under the "Odds and Ends" section of the paper..."

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