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.

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

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.

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

Former CFO William Smith's $44M thievery was "truly evil," diminished the nonprofit's reputation and exploited trust, ...

Detroit Riverfront CFO William Smith requested leniency while portraying corrupt thief as a decent and good man despite ...

Prosecutors emphasized William Smith's "deeply immoderate lifestyle" and say a girlfriend got $3.7M+ stolen from Detroit ...

William Smith used stolen money to donate to the nonprofit itself, presumably for a tax write off, a Detroit Riverfront ...

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

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