Embezzling Money from Government

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  • Cade Cothren [Chief of Staff]
    created a fictitious consulting company along with state reps. Glen Casada and Robin Smith where they charged taxpayers $51,947 for official mailing services and hid his involvement in the scheme by submitting fake invoices to state officials and also paid Casada and Smith a bribe in exchange for their help in securing government approval for the fake consulting company to operate as an official state vendor
    23 Aug 2022
    According to charging documents filed in federal court
  • State Rep. Glen Casada [R-TN]
    created a fictitious consulting company along with state rep. Robin Smith and his chief of staff where they charged taxpayers $51,947 for official mailing services and hid his involvement in the scheme by submitting fake invoices to state officials and also accepted bribes from his chief of staff in exchange for his help in securing government approval for the fake consulting company to operate as an official state vendor
    23 Aug 2022
    According to charging documents filed in federal court
  • Roy McGrath [Chief of Staff]
    engineered an illegal $233,647 taxpayer funded payment to himself from the Maryland Environmental Service by lying that then Maryland Governor Larry Hogan approved it as his severance
    05 Oct 2021
    According to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors
  • Tax Collector Joel Greenberg [R-FL]
    embezzled $400k in taxpayer money by using a government issued credit card on personal purchases including cryptocurrency and professional sports memorabilia
    31 Mar 2021
    He pled guilty to a larger package of charges and then cooperated with federal authorities on a larger sex-trafficking investigation
  • Mayor Anthony Silva [R-CA]
    embezzled $46,500 including $27,500 from the city of Stockton, CA with the help of his executive assistant
    04 Oct 2018
    According to charging documents filed by local police