The Princess and the Shrink
We haven't really been following the saga of "Princess Antionette," the con artist from Buffalo who pretended to be a Saudi princess and tried to scam American Express and insurance companies out of nearly a million dollars. But we couldn't overlook the reason she was sentenced to merely one of year of time — and in a psych ward, not a prison — for grand larceny and insurance fraud. Buried in the last graf of the Post's report:
Court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Jason Hershberger deemed her bipolar, anorexic, depressed and narcissistic. The evaluation helped get Millard her no-jail deal.
As a tipster notes, if being an unbalanced, self-absorbed, opportunist with an eating disorder is all it takes to avoid jail in this city, we're shocked there's anyone left in Rikers.
