For nearly seven years, TERO fee checks meant for the Oglala Sioux Tribe's general fund took a detour through a personal bank account in Porcupine, South Dakota. Buffy Redfish was sentenced on June 29 to six and a half years. The window she sat behind is the story.
Dodge County Sheriff Dustin Weitzel spent four years quietly moving money out of the Fraternal Order of Police account he was supposed to guard. He almost paid it all back. Almost is the story.
Patrick Bucknum ran a network that paid the bills for eleven Washington clinics. For six years, the federal complaint says, he ran the clinics' money through his own brokerage account instead.
Federal prosecutors say a Colby, Kansas controller forged 233 checks and moved $753,575 out of her employer's account over nearly nine years. The alleged machine was one person, one signature line, and a room with no second set of eyes.
Peter Murrell ran the Scottish National Party's books for two decades. For twelve of those years, court records show, he was quietly running another set of books inside the first one.
William Smith spent eleven years draining a Detroit non-profit while signing off on the books himself. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court told him the 19-year sentence stands.