embezzlement
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She was convicted last year of embezzlement but reduced her sentence on appeal by enough to run again.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
On Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that only days after being indicted for embezzlement, a fugitive donated $25,000 to the attorney general.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
A longtime investor in the country, Michael Calvey, was targeted in an embezzlement case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
He faces three felony counts of grand theft by embezzlement and one felony count of insufficient checking funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Colonel Korn was the lawyer, and if Colonel Korn assured him that fraud, extortion, currency manipulation, embezzlement, income tax evasion and black-market speculations were legal, Colonel Cathcart was in no position to disagree with him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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