Crundwell Documentary- All The Queen’s Horses- to Premiere in Early August

Coming in early August 2017, a documentary film will be taking a look at the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history, one that the horse industry was personally acquainted with since it featured one of our fellow competitors and longtime breeders, Rita Crundwell. The film, All The Queen’s Horses, comes following Crundwell’s arrest in 2012 for crimes associated with embezzling upwards of $50 million as the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois.

The film is said to include footage from Dixon, interviews with residents about their thoughts of Crundwell, and to find out how Dixon has fared in the aftermath. The world premiere of the film will take place at the Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival on August 9th at 1:00 pm, where director, Kelly Richmond Pope, will attend.

“Stealing more than $37,000 a day in her more than twenty years in office, Rita Crundwell became one of the nation’s leading quarter horse breeders, traveled the world, and threw lavish parties, all while forcing staff cuts, police budget slashing, and leaving public infrastructure in disrepair. In 2012, Crundwell was arrested as the largest municipal fraud perpetrator in the nation’s history, embezzling upwards of $50 million as the comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, a city in the heart of Illinois.”

 “All the Queen’s Horses aims to illuminate this landmark case and bring to light the blatant negligence of auditors and bankers the public relied on to keep their tax dollars safe. The eye-opening story of two decades of fraud at this magnitude is a reminder and a lesson: such catastrophes need only blind eyes and moral blindness.”- All The Queen’s Horses website