Rita Crundwell was living the dream—or so it seemed. As the city comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, she was known for her extravagant lifestyle, luxury motorhomes, and world-champion horse breeding business. But behind the sparkle of trophies and million-dollar horses was one of the biggest scandals in American history.

From 1983 to 2012, Rita embezzled over $54 million from a small town of just 16,000 people—making it the largest municipal fraud case in U.S. history. How did she pull it off for nearly three decades without anyone noticing? And what finally brought her empire crumbling down?

Join us as we unravel the unbelievable story of how one woman fooled an entire town while riding high on stolen taxpayer dollars.

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