She may not have risen to Bernie Madoff's level, but with Kinde Durkee's guilty plea Friday she's grabbed the title of California's biggest campaign finance fraudster.
Kinde Durkee, the California campaign treasurer expected to plead guilty this week to embezzling as much as $8 million from at least 50 Democratic political clients including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, allegedly squandered the money on a variety of pretty pedestrian expenses.
The California senator sued her former treasurer, and her bank for a lack of oversight
The campaign treasurer accused of embezzling millions didn't run into problems with the feds
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