Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell is still earning money from behind bars.
Crundwell is serving a nearly 20-year prison sentence for stealing $53 million dollars from the city she served for two decades.
Most of her belongings have been sold with the money already going to her victim—the city of Dixon.
U.S. Marshals are trying to get the government a direct line to breeder royalties she still earns from her former horses. So far it’s been about $13,000 to $15,000 each year.
Jason Wojdylo with the U.S. Marshals Service says the funds are still made out to Crundwell, then handed over to the government to give to the city. He says that slows down the repayment process.
“Instead of each year going back to the courts and filing a motion, we are going to be soon asking for permission to just allow those royalties to automatically come to the United States as proceeds of the crime.”
Wojdylo says Crundwell could earn breeder royalties for another ten to twenty years.
He says the government will continue to search for all of Crundwell's assets.
“I occasionally will receive a tip from the public who will share with me sometimes information on assets we already know about, but other times, on occasion, perhaps an asset that I was not aware of. It gives me a lead to go pursue that particular asset.”
