Biden’s Niece Faces Few Consequences for $100k Credit Card Scam

Caroline Biden, the 31-year-old niece of former Vice President Joe Biden, avoided jail time and paid a reasonably small amount of restitution after pleading guilty to credit card fraud.

The fraud included only a single person’s credit card that Biden possessed, and racked up over $100,000 in charges at New York CIty’s Bigelow’s pharmacy. Bigelow’s carries high-end items, such as face creams that cost in the hundreds of dollars. The victim had given Biden permission to make a single $672 purchase with the card, but Biden then used the card to open a customer account at the pharmacy, which she would bill for over $100,000 personal items in the following year.

The consequences for those actions were almost non-existent, with Biden dodging any jail time, and only having to pay back slightly more than what she stole (which is a hardly a deterrent).

According to Fox News, “In June 2017, Biden admitted to grand larceny and petty larceny, with an agreement to get two years’ probation if she repaid the money, worked 10 days of community service and avoided re-arrest for a year. She completed 10 days of community service at a children’s hospital and repaid more than $110,000 in restitution.” She was sentenced last Thursday to those two years probation. In other words, she got to dodge jail time because she paid a 10% fee on the $100k she stole.

How could that be the case? Call me crazy, but perhaps it’s because of her last name. Justice Curtis Farber presided over the case, an appointee of Michael Bloomberg, a leftie, and longtime friend of Joe Biden.

This is hardly the only recent case of a Democrat VP’s (or VP candidates’) relatives committing a crime without consequence. The son of Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s VP, was arrested after disrupting a Trump rally following the election and pled guilty to a charge of obstructing the legal process. He received a 90-day jail sentence, but 86 of those days were suspended. He also received a small $236 fine and a year of probation.

It’s clear that there’s a different legal status for those who are part of the political elite, and the rest of us. Both conservatives and liberals expressed outrage at the light sentence:

I’ll just have to disagree with the liberals who weighed in. It ain’t white privilege, it’s liberal privilege.