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Government
9:37 am
Fri June 1, 2012

Dixon mayor says comptroller used pension funds to pay city bills

Rita A. Crundwell
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By Victor Yehling

  Two interim comptrollers hired by the City of Dixon have discovered that fired Comptroller Rita Crundwell transferred money out of the police and fire pension funds to pay city bills Dixon Mayor Jim Burke told sauk valley.com about $100,000 was transferred out of the pension fund, which is not supposed to be touched, and into the general fund from which bills are paid.

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Government
11:21 am
Wed May 30, 2012

Around Illinois – May 30

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  • Democrat quits 12th District Congressional race
  • Dixon is advertising for a Finance Director
    … and federal officers want to sell assets

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Update: Comptroller fraud
3:00 pm
Tue April 17, 2012

Dixon city comptroller out of jail after arrest on federal fraud charges

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Entrance to Rita Crundwell's horse farm near Dixon
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Part of Rita Crundwell's sprawling horse farm in Dixon
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Dixon residents and media members mingle before Wednesday's news conference by Mayor Burke
Dixon Mayor Jim Burke reads from a prepared statement at Wednesday's news conference
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Statue of young Ronald Reagan on a horse, Dixon's riverfront
Rain clouds over Dixon, Illinois
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Pedersen is prosecuting the Crundwell case. Federal courthouse, Rockford, IL
Rita A. Crundwell
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Read an interesting twist on this case at www.theatlanticcities.com

DIXON — Rita A. Crundwell, the Dixon city comptroller who was arrested Tuesday on a federal charge of defrauding the City of Dixon of more than $3.2 million in public funds since last fall, was released from federal custody Wednesday. Her freedom while she awaits trial, however, rests on a number of conditions agreed upon by her attorneys, federal prosecutors, and federal magistrate P. Michael Mahoney.

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