AP
An elected official for an Arizona county has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $38 million in public funds that she used to renovate her luxurious Southwestern ranch home, maintain the family cattle business and buy at least 20 vehicles, including an Airstream camper van.
Elizabeth Gutfahr, who was Santa Cruz County treasurer from 2012 through 2024, pleaded guilty Thursday to one felony count each of embezzlement by a public official, money laundering, and tax evasion for failing to pay up to $13 million in taxes. The plea agreement allowed her to avoid trial.
“Liz Gutfahr wants to take responsibility for the harm she has caused to Santa Cruz County,” her attorney Joshua Hamilton said in a statement. “She knows that by pleading guilty, and accepting the punishment she will face as a result, she is taking a step in the right direction to be accountable for her actions.” More
Note: The title for this post is worded awkwardly because of the multiple articles I looked at and searches I did online I could find no information on Gutfahr’s party affiliation. If, however, you look at the political map for Arizona you’ll find the tiny county of Santa Cruz tucked in between much larger Pima County and the Mexican border. You can draw your own conclusion on Gutfahr’s party. – Dr. Tar
She can be sentenced for up to 35 years. Nah, let;s give her a break and just make it 34/11/29.
If anyone tries to convince me that NO ONE ELSE in that government didn’t notice THIRY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS missing, I’d tell them I have a 2020 election I want to sell them. Like the billions going to Ukraine, a good portion of it made a u-turn back to democrat and GOPe scumbags.
Telling us that you could not find her party affiliation tells us it is 95% sure we know what it is.
searches I did online I could find no information on Gutfahr’s party affiliation.
As noted above, if they won’t tell the Race or Party,you
Know the answer.
If only Kamala had won, this gal could have gotten a job at the Pentagon.
The fact that this even happened tells us how corrupt government is. Government is organized crime.
According to county filing records in 2016, Lizzie was a democrat.
^^^^
IS a Democrat.
How the fuck do you steal $38M and expect no one to notice it’s gone?
@Heatsync: How do you make $850 million disappear like De Blasio’s wife did and despite people noticing, nobody does shit about it?
USA Today reports (D)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/08/arizona-county-treasurer-embezzled-lawsuit-elizabeth-gutfahr/74728280007/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGyUOBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTTVrbrDkoK9ozMLWPehR-5OyHm5EZcE70j9IG1H5h4d38gcBZbP4cvK6w_aem_-Djz574zx5CJ7bY5CyVUbQ&sfnsn=mo
Micro-tip of the got a way ice berg, no doubt. Who’s up next??
I remember well in my youth hearing people comment about how having women and minorities in elected office would put a stop to all the corruption brought about by the old white men.
This woman was good, but no match for Rita Crundwell:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Crundwell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSZhKEddxI
38 million is some heck of a renovation budget.
“We don’t want to point fingers.
She’s suffered enough by losing her job and the public humiliation.
We just want to make sure it never happens again.”
I know her and her family; had a close working relationship with her for more than a decade 15 years ago when she worked for a developer. I would have never thought she would do anything like this. It’s not like she took a 100 bucks out of petty cash. Incredible. Completely ruined her and her family’s reputation (they were in on it, too, and will likely be charged) and life for greed.
This county is definitely Democrat. During the recent election 2 out of the 3 county supervisors, who are responsible for overseeing the Treasurer’s office were shitcanned over this issue in the primary, and replaced with…more Democrats in the general election. The other was re-elected for I think his 5th term. Idiots.
it’s almost like most/all Democrats can’t be trusted?
I don’t care how much money she stole, she still has to live in Arizona. No amount of money can make up for that shit.
Angus- Wiki bio- …she looks after each taxpayer dollar as though it’s hers… because she was going to make it so!
Piker.
We’re given the illusion of choice…..
Dark vs Light…..
demonrats vs retardicans…..
When in reality it’s the same stick…..
we just get to chose which end beats us first.
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