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Calif. campaign treasurer admits $7m theft

Associated Press

  March 31, 2012

A former California campaign treasurer pleaded guilty Friday to looting at least $7 million from the accounts of dozens of Democratic candidates and political organizations, in one of the nation’s most egregious political embezzlement cases. Kinde Durkee, who had operated Durkee & Associates of Burbank until her arrest last September, entered the plea to five counts of mail fraud in US District Court in Sacramento. The plea deal carries a sentence of 11 to 14 years in federal prison.

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