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Crundwell Case
11:26 am
Wed November 28, 2012

Crundwell Home Furnishings and Homes for Sale

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By WNIJ

The U.S. Marshals Service is selling three of Rita Crundwell's properties.  According to a news release, the Marshals have received  offers for three of the properties and are accepting competing offers until noon Dec. 21. Public inspections of the three properties will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 7, 8 and 14. A sales plan on Crundwell’s two additional real estate holdings in Dixon and Englewood, Fla., both residential properties, is pending.

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Dixon Comptroller
8:29 am
Tue September 25, 2012

Crundwell Horse Auction Nets Nearly $5-Million

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Gabe Deckard of Marshall, IL makes friends at Rita Crundwell's horse auction.
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Painting of Rita Crundwell riding her star stallion, Good I Will Be. The horse known as Willie sold for $775-million to a horse breeder in Canada. The painting is on the side of one of Crundwell's trailers.
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The award-winning stallion Execute, who went for $245,000 at auction, the second highest amount in the Rita Crundwell auction.
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Blackhawk College equestrians Abbie McCabe and Courtney Ewing working at the Rita Crundwell horse auction.
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Rita Crundwell's ranch in Dixon, site of the horse auction.
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The mare Absolute Iron.
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Horse handlers keep the horses flowing to the auction block.
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The horses were polished and their hooves were blackened before they made their way to the auction block.
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  • Rita Crundwell horse auction, extended feature.

A  two-day horse auction in Dixon has netted nearly five million dollars, according to a U.S. Marshals Service representative. More than 300 of Rita Crundwell’s horses were sold Sunday and Monday. The former Dixon comptroller is accused of stealing more than 53-million dollars from the city. WNIJ’s Susan Stephens has more from Monday’s auction at Crundwell’s horse farm.

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