The sentencing caps a scandal involving eye-popping amounts of money and a long-running con game that bankrolled a life of ...

Defense attorneys had sought a minimum 12½-year penalty for the former nonprofit executive who stole at least $44 million.

U.S. Attorney Julie Beck, Eastern District of Michigan, on the sentencing of former Detroit Riverfront Conservancy CFO William Smith ...

Smith, 52, is also responsible for $48 million in restitution and will be on supervised release for three years once he ...

After a long legal battle, the former nonprofit CFO is set to do nearly 19 years of federal time for stealing over $40 ...

A federal judge has sentenced former Detroit Riverfront Conservancy CFO William Smith to 19 years in federal prison for embezzling more than $44 million from the nonprofit over more than a decade.

The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy’s former CFO William Smith was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 19 years in prison ...

DETROIT, MI. - William A. Smith, the former Chief Financial Officer of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy (DRFC), was ...

William Smith, the former CFO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, who pleaded guilty in a $40 million embezzlement case, ...

Detroit nonprofit officials call the 20 year sentence for former CFO William Smith "appropriate" for stealing close to $44.3 ...

Prosecutors said he used the money to buy airline tickets, hotels, limousines, household goods, lawn care, clothing and ...