When Andrew Bolton embezzled the town went bust.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
His little son should go with him; he would work hard; he would pay back the money he had embezzled, as much of it as he could, if it took the rest of his life to do so.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
He was accused of having, while Lord Chancellor, sold the offices of Masters in Chancery to incompetent persons and men of straw, unfit to be intrusted with the money of suitors, but whom he had publicly represented to be "persons of great fortunes, and in every respect qualified for that trust;" with having extorted money from several of the masters, and with having embezzled the estates of widows and orphans.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy