WIND: $53 Million Embezzled In Dixon




Upstream Ideas show

Summary: In 2012, Dixon, Illinois had more than $53 million embezzled from the city’s budget by the appointed comptroller. The ensuing investigation and breaking story is said to involve the largest municipal fraud in US history. A CPA, professor at Depaul, and documentarian, Kelly Richmond Pope joins Dan and Amy to discuss the story of political fraud that served as the source material for Pope’s latest film “All the Queen’s Horses.”