Sometime later the Feds busted a bunch of City employees using city equipment and asphalt to run their own paving business.
While on the clock.
Charles Forbes headed up the Veteran’s Bureau in the 1920s. He sold off VA hospital goods to contractor buddies at a fraction of their cost, then bought the goods back at inflated prices.
He looted more than $200 million dollars of VA property. He was tried, convicted and fined all of $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. It was probably worth it to him.