Compulsive Pa. shopper gets 27 months

Compulsive Pennsylvania shopper gets 27 months.​

A woman accused of embezzling more than $1.5 million from a credit union and buying more than 1,500 items including hundreds of pairs of shoes, handbags, a $60,000 swimming pool and gambling trips to Las Vegas was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison.

Betty Jean Barachie, of Kunkletown, bought 58 coats, 16 chain saws, a $25,000 John Deere tractor and more than 3,000 books, piling most of the items in her home with the tags still attached, said Dr. George Perovich, an Allentown psychologist. "She was a compulsive shopper and was one of the most extreme cases I'd ever seen," he said...

Barachie acknowledged stealing money from the Northampton-Carbon County Federal Credit Union, where she worked, from 1995 to 2003. She pleaded guilty in October to charges of embezzlement and filing a false federal tax return. Click Here to Read More!​

Comp Notes:
Only 27 months in prison for embezzling over 1,500,000 million? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me! Even at $1.5 million; this comes to approximately $55,555 per month and/or about $1,851 per day spent in jail!

Sheesh... Where do I sign up? <lol>​

 

I can understand the shoes but what the heck did she want with 16 chain saws???

My husband is a logger, and even he doesn't own 16 chain saws!!!!!

I think, with that in mind, 27 months might not be enough.... *grins*

 

I just want to get a job were I could even hope to embezzle money. All though I do get all the pork product I want. So maybe there is a benifit here.

 

thats uber shocking, i wonder what she was gonna do with all those chain saws