Ex-Dixon official's home: Pool, baby grand, chandelier with pistols (faces 60 felony charges)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 12/07/12

[Libloather]

Ex-Dixon official's home: Pool, baby grand, chandelier with pistols
Associated Press
4:15 p.m. CST, December 7, 2012

Rita Crundwell spared no expense when she built and furnished her sprawling home with custom touches like a chandelier made of old revolvers and spurs, an in-ground pool and a baby grand piano in the wood-beamed living room.

**SNIP**

And she did it all, Crundwell has admitted, by stealing $53 million from the people of Dixon, embezzling the money over two decades while serving as comptroller in the city that was Ronald Reagan's boyhood home. The 59-year-old pleaded guilty last month and will be sentenced Feb. 14. She was allowed to remain free until then and still faces 60 separate state felony charges for theft in Lee County. She has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

[Conservative4Ever]

Well there was the problem of course, the city was allowing what sounds like a self audit. Dumb, and this woman deserves what she gets, and any and all others who were in on this fraud and embezzlement. Makes ya wonder who else was in on this.

[Terry Mross]

I was thinking the same thing. They must have had a hell of a surplus.