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Biden commutes sentence of former city employee convicted of stealing $53 million
A former city employee in Illinois who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars had her sentence commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden.
Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell stole $53.7 million from the city for over three decades in what the Department of Justice called the largest theft of public funds in state history when she was sentenced in 2013.
Authorities said Crundwell fleeced taxpayers of more than $53 million during her time as city comptroller.
She spent lavishly, mostly on raising, training and selling horses. At the time of her arrest, she owned more than 400 horses in locations across the country.
Crundwell’s breeding operation was renowned, and she was named the leading owner by the American Quarter Horse Association for eight straight years.
She paid for it all with taxpayer money.
Crundwell opened a secret bank account in 1990 and created fake invoices she paid herself using city money. All the while, she was using it to fund her lavish lifestyle, authorities said. Besides her horses, she owned three houses and a luxury motorhome.
By 2008, she was embezzling about half the city’s annual budget into her secret account. She told council members the city was short because of delays state delays disbursing tax revenue.....
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So Biden let this woman off with just 10 years. 53 million for ten years. That is 5.3 million a year. Pretty lucrative. Biden pardoned Pedophiles drug dealers and embezzlers. Hunter is in some good company at least.