The former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, convicted of embezzling over $53 million from city coffers, was among nearly 1,500 people who had their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden on Thursday. Rita Crundwell, 71, served a little over eight years ...

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.

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.