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Dixon bookkeeper who stole $53 million gets 20 years

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Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell, seen here last October, was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison and immediately taken into custody Thursday.

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A former city bookkeeper was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison Thursday for embezzling more than $53 million from her Illinois community, in what ranks as one of the worst abuses of public trust in the state's corruption-rich history.

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