President Biden communted the sentence of Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, who stole $53 million from the small town. Current officials there are furious.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (TNND) — Illinois lawmakers expressed outrage Thursday after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of two state fraudsters who misused a combined over $700 million through their schemes.

Ex-Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell, who stole $54 million from the northwest Illinois city, and ex-Northbrook CEO Eric Bloom, who lost his investors more than half a billion, saw their federal sentences slashed Thursday.