For more than 20 years, now-disgraced Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell sequestered more than $54 million in city funds into secret bank accounts to fund a lavish horse-breeding operation, resulting in what authorities have described as perhaps the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history.
DePaul University associate professor and forensic accountant Kelly Richmond Pope is in the midst of editing more than 100 hours of interviews and other footage of the saga into her first feature-length documentary titled, “All the Queen’s Horses.” Chicago documentary company Kartemquin Films will co-produce the film with release scheduled for 2016, the nonprofit recently announced.
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