It's so hard to find good help these days. A well-to-do Central Park West woman was allegedly conned out of $6,000 by her driver and his friend. Sources tell the Post that 67-year-old Jane Rosen wanted a taste of some Super Bowl action, betting a gentlewoman's $100 with what she believed was a bookie for her driver, Williams Mendoza. Thus the famed "bookie/bettor" airtight pact of Trust was forged, we guess.
But of course, there was no bookie! There was only Mendoza's friend Angel Figueroa. Rosen was apparently trusting enough to not bat an eye when Figueroa asked her to hold onto a bag he said contained $200K while he was away in Florida, presumably meeting a Nigerian prince for the other $200K. After she locked the bag in a closet, Mendoza allegedly staged a break-in, so when Figueroa came for his "money" Rosen would be forced to pay what was stolen. Rosen gave him $6,000 before finally calling the police. The lesson here is obvious: never use your driver to bet on the Super Bowl, unless he's totally got a man on the inside that says Rothlisberger's pinkie toe is infected.
