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

A former executive at a major Detroit nonprofit has been sentenced to 19 years in prison in the the theft of more than $40 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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