RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS

A wealthy Greenwich Village woman discovered that her housekeeper had stolen her designer clothes and then posed in them for photos on Facebook. Amy Pack, 35, had already fired Jasmin Figueroa, 34, from her home on Fifth Avenue for – get this – ruining a load of laundry by mixing whites and colors and then lying about it, she told jurors at the worker’s theft trial that concluded Wednesday. “She didn’t separate any of the clothes and just threw all of the laundry together,” Pack testified. “I was so upset because in the wash there were gifts people had given me, baby blankets, towels, and they were all dyed blue.” But the real shock came a few weeks later when Pack found $1,000 worth of her designer clothes missing. She did some online sleuthing and found pictures of Figueroa on Facebook wearing her navy silk J. Crew dress, her Tory Burch sweater, her lace romper and a tan belt. With the photo evidence, Figueroa was found guilty Wednesday of petty larceny in Manhattan Criminal Court. Figueroa has a prior felony conviction for stealing two checks from another employer in 2012. The sobbing housekeeper was sentenced to 60 days in jail.
* Might I suggest Ms. Figueroa use her time to practice her skills in the prison laundry.
* This would make a good commercial for Tide ColorGuard Laundry Detergent.
* That’s the problem with being rich: You still have to deal with those pesky servants.
* When the petty larceny verdict was read, Amy shouted, “How dare you call my clothing ‘petty’!”
* Time to spring for some hidden cameras.
* Yup, they were designer clothes and the housekeeper had designs on them.
* Look, Jasmin, if you’ve stolen some clothes you might not want to wear them on social media. Just a thought.
* This has been another case of Facebook Justice.