embezzle

According to the Miami Herald, federal prosecutors identified Alvarado as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to embezzle money from Venezuela’s national oil company.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

The wife of Ali Bongo, whose family ruled the central African country with an iron fist for 55 years, had been accused of manipulating her husband to embezzle taxpayers' money.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

César Franck and others got a kick out of Alessandro Stradella, the Baroque opera composer who attempted to embezzle the Roman Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

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

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

Prosecutors allege Wallace embezzled about $390,000 from the church’s coffers between April 2019 and September 2025, spending some of the funds on rent and travel expenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

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

Prosecutors have given more details about how Peter Murrell embezzled goods worth more than £400,000 using the SNP's money.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 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

Then two days later, Seaside police arrested Chief Financial Officer Rosa Segura, 45, who is accused of embezzling more than quadruple as much money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The paper also reported that Paxton rang in 2025 at a New Year’s party in Dubai attended by two men federal prosecutors had indicted for allegedly embezzling millions from an Illinois hospital.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

Within weeks the party was rocked by a scandal surrounding former chief executive Peter Murrell, who admitted in court to embezzling more than £400,000 of SNP funds over a 12-year period.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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