Embezzlement

Scandal Categories
Displaying 9 Scandals
Sorted by When News Broke
  • NYPD Union President Ed Mullins
    Stole 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 him
    03 Aug 2023
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • 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
  • City Council Member Edward Ambrosino [R-NY]
    Stole 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 legally
    15 Nov 2019
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • Mayor Anthony Silva [R-CA]
    Embezzled $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.com
    21 Oct 2019
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • 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
  • Rep. Rick Renzi [R-AZ]
    Funneled $400k in insurance premiums from a company he owned to his congressional campaign and then later transferred ownership of the company to his wife
    22 Feb 2008
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials