The Horse Girl FINAL BOSS
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2023
- Rita Crundwell was the mild-mannered comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, a tight-knit town with a population of just 16,000. Everyone knew she had a passion for quarter horses -- there were hundreds of them on her ranch and her home was full of trophies she had won at competitions all around the country. For 20 years, Rita reigned as the queen of quarter horses but as her herd of horses and collection of diamond jewellery and luxury cars grew, people began to wonder how she was able to afford it all on her modest comptroller salary. Find out how this small town scammer stole MILLIONS from her trusting community over two decades to become the horse girl final boss.
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the fact she stole money and decided to use some on an iced out Spongebob pendant is wild to me 💀
Everyone Loves SpongeBob.
@@Murray-wk3hz I don't
SpongeBob is worth it.
There's nothin that says Thieves have good taste
@@dwightcurrie8316 SpongeBob is
Extremely Good Taste.
Imagine eliminating positions at the fire department and cutting its budget so you could buy a diamond encrusted SpongeBob SquarePants pendant.
aw yeah splunkchop got that drippie 🥶 🥶 🥶
Imagine how much more money she would have embezzled if those had been full horse
Never go Full Horse.
Instead of a quarter.
best comment ever
@@trash_bender420NEVER go full horse.
😂😂😂
Had she just stopped at the ranch and took the time and care to rebalance the town's finances over the decade after that, no one would have ever found her out.
What a great point! It almost seems like they're just so greedy they just can't stop themselves from going too far 😂
really ? a ranch is not a reason to question "where did you get that money from missy ? " ?
@@xtensionxward3659did you not watch the video?
@@strannielson5342 i did and its bizzare how suddenly having a fancy ranch not a reason for questions to a person who manages the citys money in the USA
everyday i realize more and more how messed up america is
Yeah she got more than just greedy. She got downright filthy rich. 54 Million? I know a good quarter horse can bring upwards of 100K-200K and stud fees are $3,500 a straw
8 years for stealing money over 20 years. That's a slap on the wrist. She should have been locked up for the rest of her life for endangering her town for her own greed.
I'd do 8 years for 52 Milly, that's easy money 😂
Seems like a great deal to me. I'd definitely trade 8 years for 54 million.
@@moffat5914 At 54 million that works out as 56,2500 a month... if i was in my twenties or early thirties and got to keep it all i would do the 8 years
She us white and a woman, hence the lesser sentence
@@moffat5914 they rape in prison but ok
The shocking thing isnt she stole the money. The shocking part is that she got away with it for 20 years. Like that level of wealth she openly showed would instantly raise huge suspicion where i come from. Like when ur so wealthy why even bother working instead of making the horses ur full time job?
Yes, pay back the money, work the accounting back to legit, transfer your duties to somebody, and ride off into the sunset doing your horse obsession full time. But women often have the attraction to being bad and holding power over others in a Machievellian way. They made the Mean Girls movie with ample precedent.
Yes exactly that should have led to someone blowing the whistle, her blatant wealth.
That’s because you’re a bunch of pocket watching weirdos
To me, the shocking part is that she didn't create an exit plan. What an idiot. She could have socked away 10 mil and absconded when she got busted. Instead she creates this moronic qh empire. High dollar, high recognition.
The town clerk is a hero
She literally lived the high life whilst letting a city crumble, her home! Yet, she barely got a slap on the wrist. Life is so fair.
She's from the same town as Reagan, and you expect her to be a decent person?
@@internetusercynthia1621 Oh, well by that intelligent way of thinking you are from the same country as him and as such just as bad... You are liberal arn't you? And before you ask no im not republican, im just from the UK and have a brain, something ALOT of yanks threw out when they were in school because its "uncool" and gets girls bullying you ;).
"Hometown of Ronald Regan" - they are just living up to his legacy lol.
SHES OUT OF JAIL RIGHT NOW BLOWS MY MIND
shes out of jail now too! @@internetusercynthia1621
They clawed back about 49 out of 54 million (35 from the accountants, nearly 4 from the bank and 10 from the auctions) which is pretty good and a little surprising
It actually was reinvested back into the town I know of towns in northern Illinois where whole retirement funds just "dissappeared"
They also saved most of yhe original $54 million by cutting services and delaying maintenance. So they technically profited, although the opportunity cost of all the losses makes it a net negative, especially when you consider that tax payers bought some of the auctioned items and in part suffered from the lawsuits.
They wouldn't have been able to get that much from the accounting firm had it been pre sarbanes oxley.
So, in essence we can all agree that she invested the towns' money well.
@@awsomo53 talking about complicet actions after the Enron debacle???
As an emt hearing about the insane cuts to the emergency services budget made me so mad. When a company is working with really old equipment or vehicles, it usually means they are spending a huge amount of time out of service with breakdowns and repairs. That means increasing wait times for emergency responses and even sometimes having a breakdown during a call. People could have and probably did lose their lives over her insane horse obsession.
Yeah, but like, it meant she could buy new horses! Which is óbviously more important than the wellbeing of others!
They always get too greedy. She had achieved her 'dream' of owning horses, a ranch and winning shows and still couldn't stop herself from continuing to embezzle money, becoming flashier and more extravagant as the years went on.
Great video!
SSO RUclipsr spotted in the wild hello 👋
She was obsessed with breeding quarter horses, but completely forgot that greed is also addicting. That’s why she got caught.
Goes to show that women aren't what we portray them to be... innocent, fragile, and weak. If they see an opportunity they will take it and take advantage! Men be weary because women are NOT LOYAL and are emotional and if they can see that they can get away with something they will go for it!!!!! youre seeing this on a daily now because of how news spreads quicker than before but this has said since the first days!! ADAM AND EVE! and why the bible states that men need to be in control of the relationship and that law needs to be set where the mans words is law! but there is those cases where men are in the wrong and they need to be punished as well because this is where women get there advantage from and say all that gibberish to make men look bad! and more this will continue i can assure you with that! you rarely see this in other countries... why? they need to be treated equally when it comes to these laws! isnt that what theyre fighting for equality!
The Biden's have Grifted more and the Clintons have Laundered $2 Billion through the Clinton Foundations..
I agree
I was mad when you said she was released early, but then I felt better when you said she was sentenced to live in Chicago.
Halfway houses, usually known to be in the best neighborhoods, for sure...
Living in Nebraska that sounds womderful, Chicago kicks ass and even the sketchy neighborhoods are pretty safe
obviously youre not from chicago@@sunnohh
Rich people live by different rules than we do..
Hate to burst your bubble but I read a news article that said she was living on her brother's ranch. Probably riding horses everyday, living the dream.
Yeah she got a slap on the wrist, wonder how many people lost their lives because of her taking money from EMT’s
Glad to hear the town recovered a lot of the money in the end due to the lawsuit, and good on them for forcing political change. An expensive lesson for sure.
Looks like Dixon makes profit out of the embezzlement, they gain more than what she'd stolen. 😂
Is there such a thing as good politics?
@@severiusbrandusa1413 of course there is
One of the few times political reform actually was effective
Dixon has improved so much in the last 10years. A lot of new businesses. The have been redoing my entire neighborhoods infrastructure, gas and water mains all replaced this past spring and they just finished the sidewalks and resurfaced my street. Without the constant drain on the city, Dixon has been able to improve more and more every single year.
As someone who showed Quarter Horses, and knows people who were very familiar with her (I had been as well but was incredibly young and wouldn’t have remembered her if not reminded), everyone knew. Everyone had questions about how she had so much money, how she paid for dinners and so many extravagant events. Most of us in the industry, especially the wealthier ones who knew her more, knew she was doing something shady. A lot of complicity.
"all it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing"
@@TheNewRobotMaster"the absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence" - samuel l jackson
We all side-eyed her in the barn. I got 2 of her horses when they had the auction.
everyone and anyone in the equestrian scene is a pretentious dbag.
@@Around_blax_dont_relax An absence of evidence maybe an insufficient investigation?
She didn’t just steal from a town. She stole from family, friends, people she’d known all her life, services for the infirm, emergency services and everything real people in a town need. Disgusting!
That’s what I find so astounding. Taking away life-saving services from people you know face to face because you want a motorhome with 5 TVs. Incredible self-centeredness and no conscience!
The worst part is the $54 million is that we don't know the true cost of corruption. For want of a nail, the horse was lost. Who will ever know all the suffering that resulted from Rita's malfeasance? The educations that were failed, the ambulance rides that didn't make it in time, the damage to everyone's vehicles from the pot holes? It spiderwebs out from just the theft for all the things that money could have paid for and prevented.
And all so she could buy a bunch of dumb looking redneck bling that fetched maybe 15 cents on the dollar at auction. Double fail.
That's right. Look for, search out & fantasize about all possible pain you can dream up & attribute. How very progressive of you to keep the focus on pointless dramatic wonderings 😁
@@hensonlauraYo weirdo! You don’t even need to try to think about the unquantifiable damage done in this case? Why are you so triggered by such a benign and reasonable comment? Seek help. You need it.
@@hensonlaura People with functioning brains can conduct this thought experiment in literally seconds. Nothing lost there.
@@hensonlaura I'm sorry that you feel looking at the possible consequences of corruption is a negative trait.
Maybe you should leave the thinking and voting to your betters.
What an insult, she only served 8 years for her crimes. She should have been locked up for life!! People would have died due to her fraud, starving essential public services like emergency services of money!!
agreed, yeah the comments are being to kind.
Disgraceful
Women usually get a slap on the wrist
She has white female privilege.
but if was a man behing this......
I feel a lot of this could have been avoided if people paid attention to what she named those horses.
She was bragging. Taunting the world with those names.
She didn't name all of them. Any horse she purchased that was over one year old already had a registered name.
she had hundreds of horses so i think those names are cherry picked
😂😂
lol right!
It’s hard to believe that in such a small town, no one was mosey enough to realize this woman’s life style was being paid by someone(s).
Most of the people who live in small towns aren't exactly the brightest because usually the smart people leave. Of course not every single person but in general
That’s what I was thinking! Her boss made less money than she did
I'll add some insight having grown up less than an hour away from Dixon. Dixon Illinois is in a very impoverished area. The area is known as a brain drain. Anyone with skills and the ability to move out of the area is very likely to do so. This is why the municipal government did not have qualified individuals working for them. Those who stay either do so from family ties or an inability to move. The town has been losing populous since the 50s. I've been there a few times and it is a dying town. The roads are crap. Infrastructure hasn't been maintained. There is ramped drug use.
You can buy a house there for 50k. Dixon is one of many armpits of illinois. No one whos young wants to live there.
They assumed her horse breeding operation was just really lucrative. It certainly can be. If you own a champion stud people will pay tens of thousands just for him to make romance with their mare. A horse can make romance multiple times a day. I really resent those calling the people of Dixon stupid. Elizabeth Holmes conned $900M out of "smart" rich people in California and New York. So did Sam Bankman-Fried. I could even question the intelligence of someone who relocates to a city where you pay $4K a month for an apartment where you can touch the toilet and the stove at the same time. In an age where you can work remotely from anywhere.
Small towns often have the most numskulled people
This woman should be watched forever no matter where she is
Nah. Someone should take a few of her teeth from her and then call it a day.
The sad part is she probably kept enough stashed away somewhere to never work again. Or her family will prop her up.
Stuff like this happens all the time in Nigeria where I'm from, and no one hardly ever gets punished. I'm glad that in other parts of the world this is not the case!
Yeah Nigeria is noted for scams especially in usa😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Trust me, here in America people get away with it ALL the time! We call the crooks "politicians", mostly democrats.
It would be fine if the criminality perpetrated in nigeria stayed in nigeria, the problem is that the vast majority of the criminality originating from nigeria is perpetrated upon those of other countries.
@@hauntedmoodylady Preaching to the choir ma'am. I don't approve of the negative actions committed by Nigerian (or any other) criminals in other parts of the world, as it's not fair on those countries and also gives Nigeria a bad name.
@@hauntedmoodylady you're a mo.ron
I think it worked out well for Rita though and I'm sure she'd do it all again in a heartbeat. She got to live out her dream of breeding horses, winning competitions, and living the high life.
Yeah, at least she put all that money to good use and who needs an assistant fire chief anyway???
@@KebabMusicLtdBro the city was crumbling holes sinking
She was promised early release in exchange for keeping her mouth shut about her accomplices. The people of Dixon should demand justice.
@@pactimnoob1131sarcasm
It's always funny to me how greedy people get when stealing. Could've just took a cool million to cushion her retirement and coasted and no one would've been the wiser.
It gets to a point where it's no longer about the money it's the high/thrill of getting away with it
As with almost all criminals, they get bolder and bolder until they get caught.
In part I think it is that money you have not earned is very easy to spend. Like it does not have the same value. Seen in how people who steal have the tendency of wasting it. What they then stole far exceeding what can be retrieved from their possesions when they are caught.
She did it for so long, and she had a perfect setting as everyone trusted her and she had zero oversight. She is the literal poster girl for independent outside audits.
Past the point of basic security, more money directly correlates to diminished mental capacity, increased loneliness, and lower empathy and morals; in short: being rich is _literally_ a mental illness.
Recently talked w/ someone who lived in Dixon & whose family still lives there . According to these folks , most people in Dixon assumed RC inherited money . Non horse people tho't she was making money w/ her horses , not realizing the true number of horses & expenses involved . I was also told that there were a few people of authority in Dixon who were aware of some level of a scam & were given " gifts " ; when RC was initially suspected , the " gifts " quietly were sold or dissolved by those associated w/ her.
Exactly. Non-horse people think that you make money doing that. You have to be a horse person to understand that the reason this is a rich person sport is because it's almost impossible to really make massive amounts of money. For most people involved in it it's really an expensive hobby
She would have fit right in in Congress
Not going to Washington D.C. was her biggest error tbh
Goes to show that women aren't what we portray them to be... innocent, fragile, and weak. If they see an opportunity they will take it and take advantage! Men be weary because women are NOT LOYAL and are emotional and if they can see that they can get away with something they will go for it!!!!! youre seeing this on a daily now because of how news spreads quicker than before but this has said since the first days!! ADAM AND EVE! and why the bible states that men need to be in control of the relationship and that law needs to be set where the mans words is law! but there is those cases where men are in the wrong and they need to be punished as well because this is where women get there advantage from and say all that gibberish to make men look bad! and more this will continue i can assure you with that! you rarely see this in other countries... why? they need to be treated equally when it comes to these laws! isnt that what theyre fighting for equality!
For anyone who doesn’t know, Congress is where you get to write and maintain the laws that make it legal for you to swindle
Dixon doesn't sound very bright. Rita eliminated lifesaving jobs and they didn't notice. Ron Reagan betrayed the Working Class but they gave him a statue 0:26
@@arcanondrum6543 That's what I was thinking too, lol.
How did no one notice where the money came from? I guarantee she wasn't alone in this.
As someone that showed at the same shows she was at...we all thought the money came from an inheritance.
@@Happydogue You guys were giving her the benefit of the doubt.
I would have asked.
Would you though? That would be considered an extremely rude thing to ask about. Another reason such people get away with this though.
How in the hell did she go from 19 years to released after 8???? Someone should investigate that. How ridiculous..... Guarantee she is thinking it was worth it
cashed in on the c00f hysteria.
? ILLINOIS ?
She may have been the most honest ‘public official’ in the state ?
Goes to show that women aren't what we portray them to be... innocent, fragile, and weak. If they see an opportunity they will take it and take advantage! Men be weary because women are NOT LOYAL and are emotional and if they can see that they can get away with something they will go for it!!!!! youre seeing this on a daily now because of how news spreads quicker than before but this has said since the first days!! ADAM AND EVE! and why the bible states that men need to be in control of the relationship and that law needs to be set where the mans words is law! but there is those cases where men are in the wrong and they need to be punished as well because this is where women get there advantage from and say all that gibberish to make men look bad! and more this will continue i can assure you with that! you rarely see this in other countries... why? they need to be treated equally when it comes to these laws! isnt that what theyre fighting for equality!
White Collar crime gets notoriously weak sentencing.
You can steal basically any amount of money, from anywhere, and as long as you don't use a weapon in the process, the most you'll ever get is 10-15 years in America.
It's a vastly broken system.
@@axhedSorry I am dense. What does your comment imply?
Only 19 years in prison, that is a joke. For such an egregious fraud she should have got life in prison.
Life for fraud? Haha yeah no.
@@Ja_Mes If she had done this to a bank then it would have been. She got lucky that it was small town job
You don't even get life for murder
@@spacecoyote6646 I have seen people guilty of Certain financial crimes getting 150 years worth of time in jail in the USA. But i guess bankrupting a small town isn’t as serious as those cases for some strange reason.
@@spacecoyote6646people get life for murder all the time. Where do you live?
I grew up about 50 miles away, I was in high school when this happened. I remember seeing it on the news and never getting a real full explanation ever. This was very interesting to finally learn everything
It's a shame that people steal from a small place. Our little town secretary did the same thing, just $55,000 , but still a shocking amount for our town of only 1000 people.
Goes to show that women aren't what we portray them to be... innocent, fragile, and weak. If they see an opportunity they will take it and take advantage! Men be weary because women are NOT LOYAL and are emotional and if they can see that they can get away with something they will go for it!!!!! youre seeing this on a daily now because of how news spreads quicker than before but this has said since the first days!! ADAM AND EVE! and why the bible states that men need to be in control of the relationship and that law needs to be set where the mans words is law! but there is those cases where men are in the wrong and they need to be punished as well because this is where women get there advantage from and say all that gibberish to make men look bad! and more this will continue i can assure you with that! you rarely see this in other countries... why? they need to be treated equally when it comes to these laws! isnt that what theyre fighting for equality!
How much jail time did she get
Pffft. None.@@squirrel9760
people that don't know shame never go hungry.
One blazing red flag that is present in ALL embezzlers, from a couple bucks all the way up to millions, is that the thief is always rabidly territorial of their position/responsibilities. They do not want any help even when they really need it, and recoil at the thought of hiring assistants or anyone else that could potentially get close. Also, they never quit the job even as the walls are closing in, because if they are not there to keep up the smokescreen, the missing money will be found out even quicker.
I did temp work while in college. I worked at a property management company while the receptionist was out of town for 2 weeks. Everything on her computer was locked!!! Shes the receptionist, why so much security? Well she also processed all the checks that came in the mail. As a temp i minded my business but i'm sure she was up to no good. Mind you she has 6 kids, 40k salary but going on a 2 week vaca with 6 kids, hmmm.
If I didn't know any better you could be talking about Dianne Feinstein or Mitch McConnell. Feinstein left her daughters a massive, MASSIVE, unbelievable fortune! The difference from the case highlighted here is, her theft is all out in the open. Huge government contracts that went to her husbands "businesses". Example, he made a fortune off the Central Valley bullet train that was never built.
@@SincerelySandcha That checks out. I had a property management company get stupid with my money once upon a time. They would collect rent on the first, but it wouldn't hit my account in some cases for 4-5 weeks. I found out they had an employee who was first depositing it in another account to earn a month of interest before sending it on to where it was supposed to be. Do this along with a couple hundred or so other landlords, and it's some serious money. They went to jail. And lost my business.
Past the point of basic security, more money directly correlates to diminished mental capacity, increased loneliness, and lower empathy and morals; in short: being rich is _literally_ a mental illness.
@@Atmatan_KabbaherI don’t doubt this and I’ve often prayed that I wouldn’t find myself in a situation where too much money corrupted my morals and values…but can you cite some research? I’d like to do a deeper dive on the subject. If not, thanks regardless for the comment.
I was in a class where the person who made the documentary "All The Queens Horses" explained how she did it. One of the people who was there also said she remembered showing with Rita Crudwell and she said when she showed up to a AQHA show it was such a production that it was like Elvis showing up. They also said Rita kept horses with numerous top trainers. Show jackets worth over $5000 and up a piece.
Might be what they cost, but that's not what they're worth.....
I'm sorry. "Dozens of cowboy hats"?
I think there needs to be another investigation.
There's no way there are that few.
I’ve watched a dozen overviews of this case and yours is by far the best. The context of how she received the position, her closeness to all involved, the detailed photos, and the updates on both the town and Rita - absolutely remarkable. Great video as always!
Yep, some of her extended family still has nice positions or jobs in the county
Why in the world have you watched dozens of overviews of the same excat case lmao? You good?
@@smh1245 Ha, ha - I think it's a fascinating case!
Little did she know that winning a congressional seat and trading on the nonpublic information one becomes privy to is the true path to wealth.
well done andrew amazing how few people are aware of what you said comment of the year
Also a lot of attorneys and legal professionals in the government also seem to have a lot more money than their salary would allow them for the period of their tenure. I wonder why.
There's no wealth like the massive corporate funds set aside to bribe elected officials for special privileges.
And US voters are so stupid they’ll keep voting you in year after year!!!
As a longtime Quarter Horse owner I remember seeing her face in the QH Journal and such. It was quite a shock to hear this all when it came to light.
On a politcal side it just goes to show that when someone is siphoning off the taxpayer money that belongs to towns and citiies for infastructure and such, it shows! Here in California it shows immensely!
You could trace their dirty income from their horsey name 😂
People get what they VOTE for!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up in the '70s with my parents' friends being involved in quarter horses. I sort of stayed involved in it over the years and I remember hearing about her when she was flying high and seeing the crash come. It's one of those where you shake your head and ask yourself how nobody in that town ever stopped to ask how the person in charge of all the money is doing so well when the town is broke. How that's not a little suspicious is beyond me
Yep it’s all political. I showed for 30 years.
The money belongs to the taxpayers. The towns and cities stole it no less than this lady.
I took one or two classes in bookkeeping. In the first book there's a chapter on how to avoid embezzlement. Every executive and public official should know that chapter by heart.
Wow, this is quite something. I think she got off too light. She devastated that town, and ESPECIALLY with the emergency services being gutted because of her. How many emergencies weren't properly addressed because of this lack of funding and upgrades? Anyway, I liked the video. The only thing I will mention is that Illinois has a silent "s" at the end. "ill-i-noy" is how you are supposed to pronounce it.
People almost assuredly died because of her illegitimate cuts, and there are nitwits saying her punishment was too harsh.
She’s female and women usually get lighter sentences. They show up to court with their hair tied back in a ponytail in a plain outfit to look as non threatening as possible, like they’d never hurt a fly. In truth this woman is far more dangerous than the local drug dealer
@@Menstralthere are nitwits watching from outside the US where prisons are for rehabilitation not dehumanising punishment and sentences look very different. Maybe that influences their judgement a bit
@@littleloner1159 uh yeah theres nothing to rehabilitate in her case it would be ethical to feed her to her horses
Yeah this is one of those cases where she honestly should have been charged with murder
I was at a party last night and my friends roommate was talking about this!!! Then I see this not 12 hours later lol - only thing is he thought it was all set in Dixon, CA, instead of Illinois.
She had some top of the line Quarter Horses….we competed against her back in those days…..always wondered how she got her money…..now I know, the taxpayers of a town of 16K. I can imagine infrastructure is in shambles. 54 MILLION???? Wow
I’m from a small town and I’m wondering how a small town had that much money
@@alparker2616 And also not really miss it. I'm surprised there was any money left for anything.
"Horse Girl FINAL BOSS"
I love it! ⭐
We did a study on this in my governmental accounting class and even as an undergrad, it blew my mind how there were no segregation of duties or really any asset safety controls.
How did the auditors not see huge budget variances?
How was she able to produce so many invoices, for so much money, that I don't understand!
@@patrickj4747 Yeah, correct! I guess that's why the auditors agreed to settle it for 30 mils, to stop the investigation
Living only two towns away and often going to Dixon for work, it is amazing how this town has flourished despite her bullshit. Our small town area is so quiet normally, this sent shockwaves all throughout northern western Illinois. It changed how many of our towns run things!
i cant believe how recently all this happened and how i hadn't heard of it before. this channel is extremely underrated keep it up!
2011 is not very recent and it was ongoing from the eighties
I'm a horse woman too.and it's really a shame to see this woman take her greed and ambition to that level. And all the other seniors will just watch. It's redeculous .
I know what you mean I was showing in AQHA around the same time as she was and as a 15 yo with your one horse you trained yourself when you see these big rig trailers pull in show grounds with 10 horses and 3 trainers you know where all the ribbons are going that weekend 😢 you really can't compete it's disheartening for the average horse owner
“Rita purchased a $200,000 home in Florida” I guess she forgot to buy taste.
Florida out of all the places too 🤢
Of course she had no taste, did you see the gaudy stuff she surrounded herself with?
@@WobblesandBean as I wrote that there were images on screen of a lamp with a gun welded into it, and blazers that looked slightly less over the top than a figure skater’s unitard
@@MathewWoodardthe blazers are show outfits. Attend a Quarter Horse show and everyone is wearing that especially the halter and western pleasure people.
I was at horse shows where Rita was also showing. At one in MN she put on a exhibitors picnic dinner. She did also donate money to different organizations. We all thought she had inherited the money.
I'm sure that anyone who is that inventive with a towns' finances is also going to be inventive with the stories she tells people as to her good fortune.
People like this destroy small towns, and nearly every small town you can think of has someone like this.
Absolutely ghoulish. She definitely deserves to rot in jail.
If she hadn’t been THAT greedy, she may have gotten away with it. But lord, she was so selfish she literally cost people their jobs while she lived a lavish and unbelievable lifestyle.
It’s crazy how lenient the courts often are to white collar criminals. This woman did harm on a scale much larger than any small time marijuana dealer, but served a small fraction of the time, comparatively
this is absolutely insane what a horse girl will do for some stinkers its wilddddd
😅😅😂😂
FYI people, Netflix did a whole series in this that was really good!
Rita: I live my life a quarter-horse at a time
I was a teenager when she was doing this to Dixon. Us teenagers became targets by the cops during this time because that had to come up with revenue somehow. We couldn't even walk 4 friends at a time or we would get in trouble for gang activity
This was better than an episode of American Greed. 💯
This was on American Greed!
This happened in our very small town. The city secretary loaned herself a small amount from city coffers in a personal emergency, then paid it back the next week. She created a monster she couldn't control and stole an amount she could never repay in a lifetime. She too admitted her mistake right away, but had no valuable assets to be auctioned for restitution. She helped the mayor and an accountant the city hired to reconstruct her pattern of fraud over many years, as part of her restitution. The alcoholic husband she had supported in his last years died leaving her with a home here in a little town with no job prospects for embezzlers. She got work on a landscape crew in a neighboring city's Downtown Beautification project, but the job based on a state grant barely paid for gas. The home she owns here can't be taken as long as she keeps up the taxes, but it holds her back from leaving a place where she can't work.
Is she hot
Wowww?! Thanks for this information! It sounds like you are suggesting others did know about the embezzlement and started using the public coffers as their personal piggybanks as well? Almost creating a mob-like system where those who are privy to the scandal are benefiting from the illegal activities, encouraging all who are involved to not only continue to draw $ from the town’s funds but also keep everything a secret from the public. I’m not through with the video yet, but other commenters seemed curious as to whether others in the town had conspired with her to make the scheme possible for so long. What an injustice and of course a disgusting abuse of power and public trust. Stories like these and the lack of accountability faced by these kind of white collar criminals and thieves I find deeply upsetting. There’s no real way to fully calculate the way in which the fallout from her crimes have financially bankrupt local individuals, families, and organizations, but the emotional devastation that surely inflicted many…and will continue to…likely for generations. Incredibly heartbreaking.
@Seeker0fTruth I didn't mean to give the impression anyone else was involved in the embezzlement. As I said, her cooperation with reconstructing her fraud was a provision of her plea deal. She made out receipts to people who paid their bill, but kept the money of those who paid cash.
She was able to steal cash because many townspeople pay their monthly water, garbage and sewer bill (under $30) by stopping in the office across from the grocery store. If they could have paid their phone and electric bill there too they would have. Many poor Latinos in our little town don't have bank accounts. They cash their paycheck at the grocery or liquor store and carry what's left over in their pocket till its gone.
Though she didn't grow up here her husband did. She came from a town 17 miles down the highway. Townspeople grew to love her for the compassion she showed for a man in our community whose wife died suddenly and unexpectedly in her 30s. His two kids were the age of her twin boys. She made those kids part of her family allowing their father space to grieve and later get on with his social life. When his daughter was killed in a auto accident, she helped him get through a second bout of grief. She had these good attributes. Frankly, if the neighbor who she helped raise his children would have paid her what she was worth to him she wouldn't have had to steal from the town coffers. And yes, he could have afforded it, but I highly doubt that ever occurred to him. He was a zombie drunk barely getting through each day after his wife and 10 yrs later his daughter died. I forgot, his dad passed away from heat stroke during the same time frame. As the oldest son he had to take care of all of his dads business. I think that's when he got sober. Small towns are such a soap opera!
@@rt3box6tx74 Oh ok…a helpful clarification. And very helpful additional context. A complicated situation indeed. I hope the town will be able to recover from what happened. Sometimes it takes an incident like this for organizations to enact better checks and balances within the system so this kind of crime never happens again. Thank you for all of the helpful additional information.
I lived in Rockford at the time, when they auction all the merchandise off, i worked at a very nice motel, we were sold out the weekend of it, people from all over the world came to that auction.
She’s the worst kind of criminal, far worse than than lone thug with a gun robbing the local liquor store. Her psychopathy is presented with a cover of smiles, money and respectability. The worst psychos aren’t wearing overcoats with a hockey mask and I guarantee you she had NO remorse for anything other than getting caught. If you have any moral center you don’t do this for TWENTY YEARS. What an absolute disgraceful woman.
Goes to show that women aren't what we portray them to be... innocent, fragile, and weak. If they see an opportunity they will take it and take advantage! Men be weary because women are NOT LOYAL and are emotional and if they can see that they can get away with something they will go for it!!!!! youre seeing this on a daily now because of how news spreads quicker than before but this has said since the first days!! ADAM AND EVE! and why the bible states that men need to be in control of the relationship and that law needs to be set where the mans words is law! but there is those cases where men are in the wrong and they need to be punished as well because this is where women get there advantage from and say all that gibberish to make men look bad! and more this will continue i can assure you with that! you rarely see this in other countries... why? they need to be treated equally when it comes to these laws! isnt that what theyre fighting for equality!
Aye!
Past the point of basic security, more money directly correlates to diminished mental capacity, increased loneliness, and lower empathy and morals; in short: being rich is _literally_ a mental illness.
THIS!
Ok bro let's not get too crazy here I'm still going to say that people that put guns in min wage workers faces for a few hundred are worse sorry🤷♂️
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This line may seem a bit silly to anyone who doesn't know much about Cowboy hats but some cowboy hats are very expensive and are worth thousands of dollars. I think the most expensive hat Stetson (Major cowboy hat company) sells right now is just over 5 k dollars. They weren't just taking 50 dollar or 100 dollar hats from her out of spite or anything like that, she definitely was buying luxury hats.
Hatmaking is a really time intensive and expensive creative field so I kinda get it(like thundervoice hat Co. An indigenous owned hat atelier) but 5 grand? Sheeshhhh
Can't fault Stetson for seeing an opportunity to drain $5k from some dum-dums.
This is bullshit, she should have never been released from federal prison. She screwed everyone. Did anyone think to look at emergency calls and see if someone had died because they did not have the right apparatus or response people because she cut the budget....that would be murder. I am really pissed over this life of luxury and me me me while they city and citizens suffered. She needs to go back to jail
When she got busted and they auctioned all her stuff off, I bought 2 of her horses.
How much did they go for?
@@nicolaxoxo1 The ones I got were $8500 and $4200
She would probably would have never been caught if she had donated 1 mil. to the city when they needed it. A town 'hero'. Greed:(
Man this hits in the feels, these small towns are very close and they all know each other. She was inviting the people she was stealing from to her house to party and then flaunting her theft in front of them. This is the same type of woman to drown her kids if they got in the way of a love interest.
This woman obviously had a skewed perception of the human-horse relationship. I'm just a small potatoes farmer and logger, I own 5 workhorses and they are my family. I haul them in a 27 year old fixer upper truck, I have to build and repair all my own equipment, I sweat and grunt alongside my horses all day long. My clothes are dirty overalls and wornout boots, leather gloves and a greasy ball cap. For me my horses are the reason I do what I do. Poor but proud.
Grew up in Dixon her family opened a bar there after the fact everyone speculates on they got the money to do that.
I’m sorry, but who needs FIVE televisions in their RV? 😂
Embezzlers
For their staff and friends
I’m shock that over the 20 years of embezzling money she had a custom made SpongeBob pendant 😭💀
Haha!
Great video. I would have appreciated more horse puns though. "Rita engaged in some horse play with the taxpayers' money". "Eventually, she knew the game was up and had to stop horsing around".
She was not a good Neigh-bor
Rita was unable to reign in her spending. She trotted to the bank to deposit the stolen money. She was rearing to go hit the quarter horse circuit!
Same
good story I'm glad the city got a lot of the money back
Not only have I been in the equine industry for 30 years, but I also went to school for accounting. These schemes normally have people going to work everyday and in other cases people will drag themselves in half dead so no one can look at the books they have been cooking because that is what always gets them caught. She needed to be away for this activity and she got really cocky with it or else if she hadn't taken an extra 3 mo off she may never have been found out. AQHA is a very competitive world and the people I know who compete and breed may 10 or less and they work their butts off from boarding horses to using the rest of the land to farm and produce their own hay to cut costs and use up all the manure to having cattle to practice reining and cutting on. AQHA is cut throat and many people are not friends, but there is lots of talking behind people's backs and to their faces and drama.
Almost like horse people are mentally ill narcissists
Correct I spend more time with other peoples horses mucking stalls, feeding on and on. And support my horse and horse showing with hard work.
She was featured on American Greed series
Can't believe they let her out of jail. Her brother bought her old house ajd she moved right back in. Laughing the entire way. Didnt even serve 50% of her sentence.
This video was well researched and presented. The welcome use of a natural human voice to narrate made the decision to subscribe easy. Good luck with your channel 👍
If she ever wanted to become an accountant or math teacher she'll have an A1 resume
I just found your channel, it's awesome - well done. I love this type of content. Thanks!
We need some good old frontier justice.
I mean hire a horse whisperer to explain what she had done and convince all her horses to hate her.
As someone who’s disabled I find her lack of care & concern for disabled people and healthcare workers/first responders extremely callous!
Thank you so much for posting this. As a person in the area, and interested in local politics, I was of course aware of this story, but it was great to have all these details. Well done.
Also, Incredible stuff. Incredible that woman was freed. Was it $3,200 per resident over the 20 years?! Do you have any idea how many places in the world you'd get your head shot off for stealing $50? And heaven only knows how many car accidents and deaths this woman caused. And so how many hundreds of years should this woman really be serving, if you were to add up the crimes that others would get for taking half as much from half as many people?!
You know she’s never gonna be able to show her face in the area again. Not Dixon or Sterling. Not even up towards Stockton or Savanna. She’d have an…accident.
Indeeeeed.
I rather hope if she ever tries to somehow pay her millions in restitution and get back into the world of horses that the horse people give her hell. Disqualify her from showing Quarter Horses for life. Maybe even retroactively take away all her awards and prize titles for criminal behavior.@@TeaNana16
I came across your channel looking for something new and interesting and I found it. Nice job on this. New subscriber.
I'm about 2min in and the description about the small towns and city council structure is spot on and absolutely perfect. A lot of people get this wrong, as many people do not have experience in these areas living here. So I'm very impressed!
Her family was able to buy her ranch at auction. pissed a lot of locals off.
Great video as always, super interesting story
I wish this video was longer like I would like to see what the residents were seeing at the auction such a great perspective such a great video
It's outrageous that she's not behind bars for the full 20 years. Lived the dream at the nonconsensual expense of her friends and neighbors. For over 20 years. Just the worst kind of person, because she knew better and had power over others.
I adopted a horse from a rescue who does killpen rescue for 500$ come to find out she was Doc Bar, Leo, and SanLena bred. The kind of horse this lady wouldve went for. You can find good blood lines basically in the trash in the US. And the fact she made other people suffer for it gets under my skin. I have found some super pricey horse basically in. The gutter and in 2 cases for free just a lot of rehab. She couldve had it all had she actually worked for it. This lady is actually a cautionary tale amoungst equestrians. Yes, you won't get far on just skill alone in any discipline in showing, you have to have money, but not from out of you own peoples wallets man
It looks like she showed halter horse
That in itself is a horrible fate for a horse. Look at the background of halter horse
@@deborahmurphy8450 AQHA Impressive Bloodlines. . . .enough said. HYPP is a terrible fate for a horse.
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Lol that pic is with my friend Dakota…. The one with the pretty young blonde on the left lol awwww I love kota…. I literally watched her from up! Anyway thanks for this fun walk down memory lane! This was fun and you did a great job!
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I'm honestly not even mad. She's living like a cartoonish cartel boss. She's the only person who has direct control over those accounts. She raised 100% of available red flags. All it took to uncover this scheme was mild curiosity by literally any of her colleagues over the course of 20 years.
We had a banker who did something similar to this but thankfully he only stole from his family to go play cowboy on the weekends.
I just discovered your channel and am binging all of your videos!! I can’t believe you don’t have like 500k subs yet. Keep up the awesome content!!
not the Spongebob bling LOL
wanna know what kills me? she couldve put some money back into the town as a "charitable donation" and stopped stealing- not only would she have never been found out, she would've been seen as a hero
I could never do that to my home town. Imagine driving to work through potholes and having to think THIS IS YOUR FAULT every time.
Because of her, my nearby state adopted mandatory, signed-by-your-manager and sent into the State account manager training. I managed a municipal account with only $3,000, but I had to get that training too (online video).
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I would do 8 years for 20 years as a millionaire.
Time is priceless…
I remember seeing her Ads in the Quarter Horse journals and she was the best in the AQHA show world.
Was she though? Was she really or was it all fake and she could hire the best trainers and buy the best horses because she stole? Maybe those of us in the horse world need to look at those ads differently. I know I do after 30+ years. If it seems too perfect or good to be true chances are . . . .it's full of more horse crap than a manure spreader.