Ex-Dixon Comptroller Pleads Guilty in $53 Million Scam
A bookkeeper pleaded guilty to allegations she embezzled more than $50 million from a small city in Illinois.
Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in federal court in Rockford. She was allowed to remain free until her Feb. 14 sentencing hearing. Prosecutors have said she stole public money while overseeing the city's finances and siphoned it into a secret bank account.