"Dixonites are still dealing with the social and financial aftermath of the damage she did, and our community deserved notice of and reasoning for this decision. Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell was convicted of stealing nearly 54 million from the community and sentenced to serve 19 years and seven months in prison. (AP) - Officials of the northern Illinois community of Dixon approved a 40 million settlement late Tuesday with auditors and a bank in the case of former Comptroller Rita Crundwells. "It is incredibly frustrating that Dixon was given no victim notification of Rita Crundwell’s release," Dixon Mayor Liandro Arellano said. Rita Crundwell was the city of Dixon Illinois treasurer/comptroller and owner of a nationally famous quarter horse farm.
Reinhard said she could seek compassionate release if she's exhausted all administrative avenues.Ĭrundwell said she is a model minimum-security prisoner, has learned new skills and has health issues including hypertension and high cholesterol. This week on Book of Lies Podcast Brandi and Sunni discuss the largest municipal fraud in US history executed by Rita Crundwell, a Quarter Horse enthusiast. ROCKFORD The former comptroller of the City of Dixon, Ill., RITA A. “I know at my sentencing you felt I was not given a death sentence with my projected age of release of 77, but now with my deteriorating health condition, and the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic, I feel I have been given a death sentence,” she wrote in a handwritten request to Judge Philip Reinhard filed in April in federal court in Rockford, according to Sauk Valley Media. Did Amendment 1 Pass? Here's What the Measure Needs to Pass and Where Things Standīut she was released from prison Wednesday after serving nearly 8-and-a-half years of her sentence, Dixon officials said, noting that the prison official who confirmed her release to the city did not know the reason.Įarlier this year, Crundwell petitioned a federal judge for an early release from prison over fears of contracting COVID-19. I truly hope this news means Colin never writes about her ever, ever again: Disgraced former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell was sentenced today to about.
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