The chief financial officer of a small Illinois town was arrested Tuesday and charged with wire fraud after an FBI probe found that she had allegedly embezzled $30 million from the city, MSNBC ...

The city's comptroller, Rita Crundwell, was arrested on one federal count of wire fraud. FBI agents led her in handcuffs from City Hall. Shock, dismay and anger followed bombshell revelations that ...

U.S. Marshals Service says millions of dollars of seized assets yet to be sold. Sept. 26, 2012 — -- An auction of horses that belonged to an Illinois city comptroller indicted for stealing more ...

ROCKFORD — A former city bookkeeper was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison Thursday for embezzling more than $53 million from her Illinois community, in what ranks as one of the worst abuses of ...