A Republican state senator said a commutation for a woman who stole $54 million from a small town in Illinois was “a slap in ...

President Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people, including embezzler Rita Crundwell, and pardoned 39 others in a ...

President Biden communted the sentence of Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, who stole $53 million ...

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 ...

Dixon, Illinois Mayor Glen Hughes told Newsweek the commutation will be a "dark moment" in the city's history.

Ex-Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell, who stole $54 million from the northwest Illinois city, and ex-Northbrook CEO Eric Bloom ...

Rita Crundwell was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2013 for embezzling more than $53 million from the city of Dixon ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (TNND) — Illinois lawmakers expressed outrage Thursday after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of ...

Crundwell, 71, pleaded guilty in 2012 to what authorities then called the largest municipal fraud in the country’s history.

Crundwell pled guilty in 2012 and was sentenced to almost two decades in prison but was released in 2021. Now Biden commutes her and other sentences because they were on home confinement during COVID ...