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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A former city employee in Illinois who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars had her sentence commuted Thursday by ...

Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon city comptroller convicted of embezzling $53.7 million from the city — pegged as the largest municipal theft in U.S. history — is among one of roughly 1,500 people ...

Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled more than $50 million from the city and was sentenced to 19 years in ...