Another trusted female secretary accused of stealing.

Add them all together and they've stolen 1/49.999999 billionth of what Bernie Madoff stole.

But still. Female white collar crime appears to be on the uptick.

UPDATE: A devoted reader writes in to point out that the above (hyperbolic) figure is wrong; off by a factor of 234,354. Hyperbole aside, he is both right and wrong.

In his figuring, he left out the amounts stolen by the other local women accused in the recent past. We estimated the amount stolen by all these women to be around $1 million. The amount stolen by Bernie Madoff is estimated at $50 billion. That would make the amount the women as a group stole about 1/50,000th of Madoff's haul.

The point, however, remains the same.