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To: average joe who wrote (88829)	4/18/2012 8:43:13 PM
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Breathtaking small-town fraud... Dixon comptroller arrested in $30 million embezzlement scheme morrisdailyherald.com The size of the losses represents a staggering hit for the small northwest Illinois town with a budget of only about $8 million to $9 million a year and left residents bewildered. "Nobody was watching the store," said Ron Pritchard, who attended high school with one of Crundwell's brothers. "We don't have the checks and balances." In spite of a city salary of just $80,000 a year, Crundwell lived extravagantly, spending huge sums on her horse farms in Dixon and Beloit that raised champion quarter horses as well as $340,000 on jewelry since mid-2006 and $2.1 million to buy a luxury motor home fit for a rock star.