Republican Criminal Theft Scandals

Convinced numerous people into investing $840,000 in a technology company that he secretly earned commissions on while giving the false impression he was actually an investor

Illegally paid convicted felon and former Governor John Rowland $35,000 under the table to work on her 2012 Republican congressional campaign instead of using campaign funds as required by law

Billed $50,000 in false expense reports to his campaign by lying about driving 90,000 more miles than he actually did in reimbursement forms

Spent tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds on private jets, automobiles, tickets to the Super Bowl, massages and cigars and many other things over a five-year period

Fraudulently concealed $35,000 he received working for the 2012 campaign of Republican congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley by creating a fake third-party contract with her husband's business to disguise the fact that a convicted criminal was providing them campaign advice

Stole four articles of clothing from a local department store by stuffing them into a shoe box and concealing it in the bottom of her shopping bag

Kicked in his ex-girlfriend's door and stole her handgun, computer, cell phone and a number of other items while she was away at work

Masterminded an illegal counterfeit luxury goods trafficking ring that raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars selling knockoff items to unsuspecting customers

Charged local taxpayers to reimburse him $1,331 on expenses he spent entertaining a subordinate he was having an extramarital affair with and on rental cars he used to visit the woman and his wife on different weekends

Stole a necklace worth only $27.99 from a Sears department store by hiding it in her pocket and not paying for it when checking out with other items and then tried to flee when confronted by security which proved her guilty intentions

Tricked NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's aides into giving him $1.1 million in campaign funds that he said would be used to set up a ballot-security operation but was instead diverted to a personal account which he used to purchase a new home

Stole a truck with an attached 20ft travel trailer around 3am, got stuck in a resident's driveway when he unsuccessfully attempted to turn around and then passed out inside the truck until police arrived and found him to have a BAC of .15

Embezzled $400k in insurance premiums from a company he owned and deposited it into his congressional campaign account and then tried to cover his tracks by transferring ownership of the company to his wife

Stole $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 reports

Illegally obtained license plates without paying the required $758 fee and then altered public records to make it appear she paid it