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Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon comptroller who stole more than $50 million in what some publications called “the largest municipal fraud in United States history,” had her sentence commuted by President Joe Biden Thursday. NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

IRS leadership on Thursday announced that the agency has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and proceeds from a variety of crimes.

The president-elect suggested in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the former committee’s members should be jailed.

President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law is widely viewed as a candidate to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has been arrested on federal public corruption charges, officials said Friday.

In six weeks, former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel will move back to the city. Will he run for office or take on a national role with the Democratic Party?

Will Rahm Emanuel seek public office when he returns from his role as ambassador to Japan? How did he react to the results of November’s election? He shares those thoughts and more with NBC 5 Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on Friday raised concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for Attorney General amid numerous sexual misconduct allegations. NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a long-running television show before pivoting to politics.

Many Senate Republicans want the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz to be released. Gaetz is a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump.

The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we’ll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he’d let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.

Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. attorney general.

Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.

Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins is a former member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command who fought in the Iraq War.

Here are five things to know about North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

As President-elect Donald Trump announces appointments for his upcoming cabinet, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern takes a look inside what the confirmation process looks like.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.