Oh My Fraud Don't Look a Fraud Horse in the Mouth | The Case of Dixon, Illinois
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REFERENCES
All the Queen’s Horses Documentary — Kelly Richmond Pope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1T3IwOQSs
Lessons learned from shocking municipal fraud cases — CPA Insider
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/2018/oct/lessons-learned-municipal-fraud-cases.html
FBI press release — indictment
Dixon’s quiet hero — Fraud Magazine
https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4295003585
DOJ sentencing press release
Rita Crundwell and the Dixon Embezzlement - Chicago Magazine
https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2012/Rita-Crundwell-and-the-Dixon-Embezzlement/
Rita Crundwell stole $54 million then returned to the scene of the crime - WGN
How one of the biggest swindlers in American history built a horse breeding empire - LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-horse-swindler-crundwell-20151030-story.html
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