Embezzlement
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Ed MullinsFmr. NYPD Union President8/03/23Stole roughly $1 million from a NYC police officers union by filing falsified expense reports for personal items including lavish meals and luxury clothing and over-inflating the amount he should be reimbursed for countless other expenses for over four years to such a degree that prosecutors described it as a "personal piggy bank" and then lied to federal officials when they confronted himAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Cade CothrenGlen Casada Chief of Staff8/23/22Created 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 vendorAccording to charging documents filed in federal court
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Glen CasadaFmr. House Speaker [R-TN]8/23/22Created 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 vendorAccording to charging documents filed in federal court
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Roy McGrathFmr. Chief of Staff [R]10/05/21Engineered 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 severanceAccording to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors
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Joel GreenbergFmr. Tax Collector [R-FL]Friend of Rep. Matt Gaetz3/31/21Embezzled $400k in taxpayer money by using a government issued credit card on personal purchases including cryptocurrency and professional sports memorabiliaHe pled guilty to a larger package of charges and then cooperated with federal authorities on a larger sex-trafficking investigation
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Edward AmbrosinoFmr. City Council Member11/15/19Stole more than $800,000 in legal fees owed to his law firm by transferring the money to his personal account and then didn't pay the $254,628 tax bill that would have been due had the money been acquired legallyAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Anthony SilvaFmr. Mayor [R-CA]10/21/19Embezzled $2.7 million from a local Boys and Girls Club over a four-year period and also used the organization's credit card for personal trips to the Philippines and Lake Tahoe, hotels, retail purchases and membership to dating website filipinocupid.comAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials10/04/18Embezzled $46,500 including $27,500 from the city of Stockton, CA with the help of his executive assistantAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Jake FilesFmr. State Senator [R-AR]1/29/18Pocketed $46,500 in state grants designated for community upgrades by manipulating the bidding process to award his company a contract for work that was never doneAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Gerald HegeFmr. Sheriff [R-NC]9/20/03Stole $6,200 dollars from the sheriff department's bank account which he used to pay for his re-election parties in 1998 and 2002 and to reimburse an employee for a travel expense and then obstructed justice by attempting to cover his tracks on expense reportsAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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