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embezzle

[em-bez-uhl] / ɛmˈbɛz əl /


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According to the Miami Herald, federal prosecutors identified Alvarado as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to embezzle money from Venezuela’s national oil company.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

EDINBURGH—A political operative’s yearslong scheme to embezzle party funds has become a source of anger and embarrassment in Scotland, but not entirely for the reasons you might think.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

During the appeal trial, she denied that the RN had any system to embezzle European Parliament funds and has said her party acted in "complete good faith".

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

She has denied wrongdoing, and party spokesman Laurent Jacobelli said "we are going to prove that there is no system to embezzle money from the EU".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024

To appropriate another man's design was no more nor less than to embezzle his money or steal his goods.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

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's lawyer indicated this week that the former chief executive had enough funds to repay the sum he embezzled from the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke exclusively and in detail to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about the £400,000 embezzled by her estranged husband.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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

Li Jianping, a former Inner Mongolia official, was executed in 2024 for embezzling and taking bribes totaling more than 3bn yuan.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail after he admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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


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