embezzled

past tense of embezzle

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Recent Examples of embezzled Among the total losses, $12 billion was ruled to have been embezzled, for which Lan was sentenced to death. Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024 Tweed and his ring had embezzled millions of dollars from the city budget, lived large, and came down hard after enemies leaked evidence of their wrongdoing to the Times. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024 Prosecutors allege Miller embezzled more than $47,000 in union funds in the custody and control of the Bank of Ann Arbor by issuing about 38 unauthorized checks to himself and forging the signature of the second signatory on 20 of the checks. Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024 The lawsuit said that Baskin defamed McQueen by posting video diary entries on YouTube and on a website in 2020, claiming McQueen embezzled money from her and her then-husband, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances more than two decades ago. San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024 Elsewhere in the suit, Wilson alleges that The Deb producers embezzled $900,000 Australian (about $612,000 USD) from the film’s budget. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Embezzled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embezzled. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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