embezzle

Still, these cookie-cutter scams weren’t as lucrative as schemes in Los Angeles to embezzle government homeless money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The wife of Ali Bongo, whose family ruled the central African country with an iron fist for 55 years, had been accused of manipulating her husband to embezzle taxpayers' money.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

César Franck and others got a kick out of Alessandro Stradella, the Baroque opera composer who attempted to embezzle the Roman Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Some plots intended to embezzle funds and defraud unions and employee benefit plans, officials say.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2023

It was this capricious and wilful beauty who made poor Andrea break his word and embezzle the money King Francis had given him to spend for works of art.

From Castilian Days by John Hay

But if a mom and pop own a dry cleaner and someone embezzles or steals $175,000 from them and they don’t get their money back, they’re done.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2017

One of the objectors embezzles money and excitement surges to the rescue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men do not perpetrate crimes for the sake of light o' loves like Musette, unless, indeed, some wretched youth embezzles money to buy jewellery for his divinity.

From The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

You say the mouth embezzles all, The fruit of your exertion; But I on this assembly call To prove the base assertion.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park

The two fugitives at the Dubai event had been both indicted in federal court in Illinois in 2024 on charges that they embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital where Ahmed was CFO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

A blue tent was set up outside the couple's home for officers to examine, log and seize some of their possessions, as they suspected they had been purchased with embezzled cash.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - was due to appear at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday for Crown lawyers to attempt to recover the money he embezzled.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Only some of the embezzled goods which formed part of the final charges admitted by the ex-SNP chief executive have been retrieved.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

But there was a man who’d embezzled money from Grandpa Vaughan’s estate after he died and whom Rosa then sued in civil court.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The paper also reported that Paxton rang in 2025 at a New Year’s party in Dubai attended by two men federal prosecutors had indicted for allegedly embezzling millions from an Illinois hospital.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

The 57-year-old, known as JOH, governed from 2014 to 2022 and had been accused of embezzling $2 million in public funds to finance his 2013 presidential campaign.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

It comes after the party's former chief executive Peter Murrell was jailed for more than five years after he admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party over five years.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Within weeks the party was rocked by a scandal surrounding former chief executive Peter Murrell, who admitted in court to embezzling more than £400,000 of SNP funds over a 12-year period.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

After Scott had set up his congregation, he found that Komo was embezzling money from people who were contributing to the fight against the removal.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela