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Rita A. Crundwell (née Humphrey; born January 10, 1953) is the former Comptroller and Treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012.She was fired in April 2012 after the discovery that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city of Dixon for over 22 years to support her championship American Quarter Horse breeding operation, as well as a lavish lifestyle away from work.
Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) [1] is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer. It often involves a trusted individual taking advantage of their position to steal funds or assets, most commonly over a ...
An administrator of a church stole more than $360,000 in church funds as part of an embezzlement scheme that went on for five years in northern California, federal prosecutors said.
The nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC) received $2.5 million in federal grant funds diverted from Mississippi's TANF welfare funds, as well as tens of millions in public funds as an element of the scheme. The Mississippi state auditor has termed the scheme "the largest public embezzlement case in state
Christopher Harrison, shown in this 2022 file photo, was indicted Oct. 15, 2024 on fraud and embezzlement charges stemming from two development project in Richmond and North Carolina.
Former O.C. school official arrested in $14-million embezzlement case. Christopher Goffard. ... Head of celebrity-fronted travel company confronts fraud claims. Frank Donavan, the district's ...
The 3,000 billion toman embezzlement scandal in Iran (also 2,800 billion embezzlement; approximately US$943.5 million) [clarification needed] was a corruption scandal involving the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least seven Iranian state and private banks to purchase recently privatized state-owned companies. [1]
Robert Cirilo, who previously led United Steelworkers Local 13-1647, has been indicted for wire fraud and embezzlement. Corpus Christi labor union president accused of embezzlement, wire fraud ...