embezzle

Still, these cookie-cutter scams weren’t as lucrative as schemes in Los Angeles to embezzle government homeless money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

They accused several people of orchestrating a scheme to embezzle money in Ukraine's energy sector, including at the national nuclear opertor Energoatom.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

During the appeal trial, she denied that the RN had any system to embezzle European Parliament funds and has said her party acted in "complete good faith".

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Federal prosecutors allege Navarro set up a sham charity, called the United Latino Foundation, to embezzle money for his personal use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

In return they were always trying to beg or embezzle the treasure of the king at Susa.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

But if a mom and pop own a dry cleaner and someone embezzles or steals $175,000 from them and they don’t get their money back, they’re done.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2017

One of the objectors embezzles money and excitement surges to the rescue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men do not perpetrate crimes for the sake of light o' loves like Musette, unless, indeed, some wretched youth embezzles money to buy jewellery for his divinity.

From The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

You say the mouth embezzles all, The fruit of your exertion; But I on this assembly call To prove the base assertion.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park

The two fugitives at the Dubai event had been both indicted in federal court in Illinois in 2024 on charges that they embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital where Ahmed was CFO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The court heard how Murrell used the cash embezzled from his party to fund an extravagant lifestyle.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Only some of the embezzled goods which formed part of the final charges admitted by the ex-SNP chief executive have been retrieved.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Murrell's lawyer indicated this week that the former chief executive had enough funds to repay the sum he embezzled from the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

But there was a man who’d embezzled money from Grandpa Vaughan’s estate after he died and whom Rosa then sued in civil court.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The 57-year-old, known as JOH, governed from 2014 to 2022 and had been accused of embezzling $2 million in public funds to finance his 2013 presidential campaign.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Nicola Sturgeon said she has not spoken to her estranged husband since he was jailed for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP while serving as its chief executive.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail after he admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

In a lawsuit of his own, the investor accused Ghaffar of embezzling assets to fund an extravagant lifestyle for himself and his family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

After Scott had set up his congregation, he found that Komo was embezzling money from people who were contributing to the fight against the removal.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela