Former Vice President Joe Biden’s niece, Caroline, avoided jail time Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court in a sweetheart deal on a felony conviction for a $100,000 credit card scam.
Caroline, 31, offered an apology while promising her wild ways are behind her, as she accepted her sentence of two-years probation.
‘I not only acknowledge my conduct and take responsibility but deeply regret the harm caused,’ she told Justice Curtis Farber.
‘I can assure you that I have made amends, full restitution, completed community service and that nothing like this will ever happen again,’ Biden said, according to the New York Post.
Decked in a fitted black dress and ankle booties with her blonde locks flowing, Caroline happily had her felony conviction tossed.
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Caroline Biden, 31, scored a sweetheart plea deal in Manhattan court following her arrest in 2017 felony conviction for a $100,000 credit card scam
Strike a pose: Biden, decked in a fitted black dress and ankle booties, was sentenced to two-years probation after accepting a deal to plead guilty to the lesser charge of petit larceny
Model citizen: Biden told the judge Thursday that her wild ways are behind her, and that she is continuing to volunteer at a children’s hospital, where she completed her community service
As part of her deal she plead to a lesser charge of petit larceny.
She has since paid the full restitution of $110,810.04 and completed 10 days of community service.
‘I love the children, and I’m still working with the volunteer service program now and that’s been very fulfilling,’ she said in Manhattan Supreme Court.
In 2017, Biden used a borrowed credit card to make purchases totaling more than $110,000 at the high-end Bigelow Pharmacy in Greenwich Village.
Prosecutors previously said Caroline asked to borrow a credit card from a victim, who was not identified in court documents, to buy a single item for $672.
But instead Biden opened an account at Bigelow Pharmacy and spent more than $110,000 between April 2015 and June 24, 2016, buying the store’s lavish products.
On May 5, 2017, police arrested her and initially charged her with grand and petit larceny.
Caroline, 31, was allowed to change her plea to a lesser charge of petit larceny
Goodbye: She told the judge Thursday she was extremely remorseful for the harm and pain she had caused
This was not her first run-in with the law: in 2013, Caroline was arrested for harassment, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice after she got into a fight with a roommate over rent.
She also told to police while she was being arrested: ‘I shouldn’t be handcuffed! You don’t know who you’re doing this to!’
Biden, who has been reportedly in and out of rehab for anger management and a drug addiction, also managed to escape jail at the time when the court ordered for her charges to be dropped if she behaved for six months.