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In those two decades she stole over $53 million from a city of less than 16,000 people. Dixon, Illinois— known for being the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan—has now gained the distinction of being the victim of the largest municipal fraud to date. Rita Crundwall was born in 1953 to Ray and Caroline Humphrey.
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