As Facebook use goes up, street cred for crime goes down

Bettysue Higgins, the now former administrative assistant for a law firm, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges after her fraudulent spending on casual video games was caught out.

Between 2006 and 2010, Higgins wrote approximately 220 checks using the forged signature of the firm’s executive director. In the last two years, 78 were

“deposited directly to her personal account and paid out the funds to Zynga YoVille and Zynga Mafia Wars.”

For those that don’t know, YoVille and Mafia Wars are social networking games played through Facebook.”

While the vast majority of the checks recently were for the games, they only constitute around $4,000 of the $166,000 in total she embezzled from the company. Nonetheless, embezzlement for Facebook games isn’t really something that’ll get you the alpha spot in prison. Worst of all, this is certainly action unexpected of a woman named Betty Sue, much less one with both Betty and Sue merged into one name.