Brickbat: Minimum Effort

Former Santa Cruz County, Arizona, Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to embezzling over $38 million in public funds over 10 years, in what her own attorney called "one of the dumbest, ill-conceived, short-sighted, and most audacious crimes in Arizona state history." Her scheme involved moving taxpayer money into her private accounts with little effort to hide it, yet it went unnoticed until recently, when her bank noticed irregular activities in 2024 and alerted law enforcement. To recover some of the stolen funds, Santa Cruz County is selling off assets like real estate, livestock, and luxury cars Gutfahr purchased, recovering nearly $3 million so far.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Almost $4 mill a year and no one noticed. This county is stealing too much of its taxpayers' money.

[Incunabulum]

Santa Cruz has almost no one living in it. 48k people. How TF do you steal 4 million/yr? The annual budget is like a hundred million.

[Longtobefree]

Federally mandated accounting controls?

[TJJ2000]

She was just doing wealth-distribution.

It's pretty hard to keep justice and order in a nation sold on 'Democratic' THEFT at the highest levels. So long as criminal socialists keep winning access to the monopoly of Gov-Guns expect a criminal society to develop. As it has done time and time and time again throughout all of human history.

Any Gov-Gun usage has to be focused on defending Individual Liberty and ensuring Justice for all ... else ... they are being used to destroy Liberty and *do* injustice.

[John F. Carr]

"one of the dumbest, ill-conceived, short-sighted, and most audacious crimes in Arizona state history."

If it worked for 10 years, it's not as dumb and short-sighted as her lawyer thinks.

[Bubba Jones]

How many of these crimes are never noticed?

If she had stopped after 5 years, who would ever know?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Nothing left to cut

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Grifters gotta grift.

[SRG2]

<i<Grifters gotta grift

Yeah, perhaps she should have used some of the embezzled funds to sell her own crypto and cellphones

[AT]

Hers is an elected position.

This is what happens when voters are asleep at the wheel. I wonder how many people who cast a ballot for her even knew her name before this story first broke.

Heck, of the 50K or so of them, I wonder how many even speak English - or if they just recognize that they're just supposed to blindly tick D all the way down the voting ballot they can't read.

For as much hemming and hawing as the MSM likes to go on about Democracy and the Rights of the People - doesn't seem like very many of them are taking them very seriously.

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This is just like Biden. just like him... Mega-billions with no accountability

Maybe the stupidest world leader of the past 150 years !!!

Biden roasted for sending South Africa $8 billion to shut down coal plants: ‘Weapon-grade lunacy’
The president said coal-fired power plants would be replaced with renewable energy sources
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-roasted-sending-south-africa-8-billion-shut-coal-weapon-grade-lunacy

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An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were “tossing gold bars off the Titanic”, rushing to get billions of your tax out the door before Inauguration Day. The “gold bars” were tax dollars and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden Administration knew they were wasting it.

Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA.

LEE ZELDIN