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In 2023, Jonas Murphy said he\u2019d fallen in love for the first time.<\/p>\n

But his partner was accustomed to a lavish lifestyle. Murphy made good money as a lobbyist and political committee treasurer for the National Venture Capital Association, yet he felt pressure to provide more than he could afford.<\/p>\n

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So Murphy turned to crime.<\/p>\n

And in the end, he lost both his partner and possibly his freedom.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a federal judge will decide how much time \u2014 if any \u2014 Murphy will spend in prison for embezzling<\/u><\/span> more than $1 million from the trade association\u2019s political action committee between December 2023 and June 2025. Murphy, who pleaded guilty<\/u><\/span> in December, said he regrets his actions, which he described as driven by fear of losing that relationship, according to a he wrote last month to Judge Emmet Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s case is hardly a one-off embezzlement binge. Rather, it\u2019s one in a yearslong<\/u><\/span> string of cases in which trusted political treasurers, consultants and advisers embezzled millions from campaigns and committees often plagued by shoddy financial protections and controls.<\/p>\n

During the past year alone, several other individuals have faced federal charges related to alleged embezzlement or related financial crimes involving the political campaigns and committees they serve.<\/p>\n

In Montana, Abbey Lee Cook pleaded guilty<\/u><\/span> to three counts of wire fraud after misappropriating more than $250,000 in campaign funds, which she used for payments on her personal credit card, car loan and commercial property.<\/p>\n

In Virginia, Katherine Buchanan admitted<\/u><\/span> to embezzling more than $840,000 from Democratic political committees, including the campaigns of Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Buchanan, who pleaded guilty in June 2025, spent the money on personal expenses, including landscaping, chartered yacht tours, a Peloton bike, concert tickets and trips to Italy.<\/p>\n

In Pennsylvania<\/u><\/span> and Florida<\/u><\/span>, Yolanda Brown is accused of fleecing two Democratic campaigns \u2014 allegations her lawyer, Khambrel Davis, denied when contacted by the Philadelphia Inquirer in March. In 2024, Brown, then Yolanda Cheers, paid $330,000<\/u><\/span> after pleading guilty in a separate case to felony grand theft for stealing money from two organizations that she used to pay herself bonuses and make unauthorized credit card payments, including a $10,000 vineyard trip.<\/p>\n

And in Maryland, James Appel is facing money laundering and wire fraud charges after federal prosecutors said<\/u><\/span> he took a combined $200,000 from two clients to refinance a loan on his yacht. Appel pleaded not guilty in March and continues to serve<\/u><\/span> as the trustee on Rep. Andy Ogles\u2019 (R-Tennessee) legal defense fund.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most infamous modern-day political thief is Kinde Durkee, who pleaded guilty in 2012 to embezzling millions from more than 50 Democratic political committees, including about $4.5 million<\/u><\/span> from the campaign of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California).<\/p>\n

Federal officials said at the time that Durkee was motivated by \u201cgreed<\/u><\/span>,\u201d plain and simple. During her , Durkee took \u201cfull and complete responsibility\u201d for her actions and said she was \u201ctruly sorry for the hurt I have caused my former clients, my former employees, my friends and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

But rarely are embezzlers driven by pure greed, as Murphy\u2019s case illustrates, campaign finance fraud experts told NOTUS.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the pressure of romantic entanglements. Personal financial issues and debt, substance abuse and gambling addictions, a sick family member, and the lust for luxury may also cause financial professionals to begin skimming from the sometimes massive pools of political cash they\u2019re charged with managing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI convinced myself that I needed to impress them and maintain their affection through material means \u2014 through gifts, travel, and projecting a lifestyle that I could not realistically sustain,\u201d Murphy wrote. \u201cOver time, that thinking became increasingly irrational, and instead of confronting it or asking for help, I made a series of deeply wrong decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In supportive to the judge last month, Murphy\u2019s friends and family members said they were shocked when they learned of his crime, which they described as out of character for the man many had known since he was adopted at 3 months old. (His former partner, notably, does not appear to have submitted such a letter, and his lawyer stated in the that the relationship had ended.)<\/p>\n

A longtime friend of Cook also wrote a in December to the Montana judge, revealing Cook was \u201cgoing through a challenging and painful divorce.\u201d Cook herself told the court she was overwhelmed by her workload and \u201cthe train ran away rather quickly, as you can imagine,\u201d according to a of her plea hearing on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

Such letters and other records that could shed light on Buchanan\u2019s motives are \u201cto safeguard the defendant\u2019s private and sensitive health information,\u201d according to the .<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Cook, Buchanan and Murphy declined to comment or to make their clients available for an interview.<\/p>\n

Buchanan, who authorities released from federal custody on May 29, did not respond to letters sent to her in federal prison before her release.A judge ordered in April for Cook to be jailed<\/u><\/span> for violating her presentencing release conditions. Her next hearing is scheduled for September.<\/p>\n

In an email, Appel told NOTUS: \u201cI have pled not guilty to all charges,\u201d when asked if he disputes the government\u2019s version of the events and if there were any mitigating factors or circumstances. Appel\u2019s lawyer, Jeff Ifrah, did not respond to emailed requests for comment.<\/p>\n

While theft is as old as money itself, federal campaign finance regulators said they noticed an increase<\/u><\/span> in political embezzlement cases in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

So in 2007, the Federal Election Commission released safeguards to help political committees protect themselves \u2014 and their employees \u2014 from falling victim.<\/p>\n

Dave Mason, general counsel at Aristotle International, has been tracking embezzlement cases since serving as a Republican FEC commissioner during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He worked with agency auditors to develop the 2007 recommendations, which he characterized as an \u201cextra set of eyes on the books.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s frustrating about it is that with all this experience, it\u2019s not getting less common,\u201d Mason told NOTUS.<\/p>\n

Indeed, every month or two, another alleged political embezzlement scandal seems to materialize: in Baltimore elections<\/u><\/span>, in Texas county campaigning<\/u><\/span>, in Pennsylvania state politics<\/u><\/span>. A fledgling PAC accused<\/u><\/span> its former treasurer last week of misappropriating most of what it had raised in the first few weeks, then going dark \u2014 and reopening lines of communication only after NOTUS contacted him for comment.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not including other kinds of financial crimes \u2014 from cybertheft to old-school check washing via U.S. mail \u2014 that campaign committees for U.S. senators, U.S. House members, national party committees and political action committees have endured.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Sens. John Thune<\/u><\/span> (R-South Dakota), Chuck Schumer<\/u><\/span> (D-New York), Cory Booker<\/u><\/span> (D-New Jersey), Sheldon Whitehouse<\/u><\/span> (D-Rhode Island) or Jerry Moran<\/u><\/span> (R-Kansas), you\u2019ve been affected. So, too, if you\u2019re House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/u><\/span> (R-Louisiana), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/u><\/span> (D-New York) or Rep. Diana Harshbarger<\/u><\/span> (R-Tennessee).<\/p>\n

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This week, NOTUS reported<\/u><\/span> that Arnold & Porter, a major law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., had $40,000 stolen from its federal PAC.<\/p>\n

Arnold & Porter acknowledged NOTUS\u2019 request for comment but did not provide additional details on the incident.<\/p>\n

There is little a political committee can do to mitigate personal pressures that their treasurers and trusted financial officials are experiencing, nor can they do much to combat potential embezzlers rationalizing away their illicit activities.<\/p>\n

Personal pressures and rationalization are two points of what\u2019s known as the \u201cfraud triangle\u201d that anti-fraud professionals use to explain the psychology underpinning political and white-collar theft.<\/p>\n

But political committees have control over the triangle\u2019s third point: opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, you\u2019d much rather spend $50,000 up front [on safeguards] than to find that somebody embezzled $1 million three years later,\u201d Donna K. Pelham, educational content director at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, told NOTUS. \u201cWhen you look at the losses on the back end, you\u2019re going to regret\u201d not securing your political operation sooner, she added.<\/p>\n

Several political campaigns and committees learned this particular lesson in the hardest of ways.<\/p>\n

The National Venture Capital Association has spent months revising campaign reports to accurately report each of the more than 200 transactions Murphy made from the political committee to six personal bank accounts as an \u201cunauthorized disbursement.\u201d In letters<\/u><\/span> to the FEC, the committee said it\u2019s also been \u201cimplementing procedures to prevent a recurrence of these problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evan Keller, a spokesperson for the National Venture Capital Association, did not respond to requests for comment about what those procedures entail.<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s two U.S. senators were more forthcoming.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of Buchanan\u2019s embezzlement, Kaine\u2019s campaign hired a compliance firm and implemented internal controls including \u201crequirements that checks for amounts over $1,000 be signed by two individuals; incoming checks be received by an individual who does not oversee the campaign\u2019s accounting; and that campaign petty cash be limited, among other steps,\u201d Janine Kritschgau, a spokesperson for Kaine, told NOTUS.<\/p>\n

Warner\u2019s campaign conducted a comprehensive financial review, hired a new compliance firm and treasurer, and implemented new financial controls and oversight that include \u201crequiring signoff from multiple officials for expenditures and holding regular weekly meetings among finance and operations staff to review campaign finances and compliance procedures,\u201d said Rachel Cohen, a Warner spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cCampaigns and political committees should constantly evaluate and strengthen their financial oversight practices,\u201d Cohen added. \u201cRobust internal controls, independent compliance review, and regular monitoring are critical to protecting donor resources and maintaining public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protecting donors\u2019 trust is critical for political committees, said David P. Weber<\/u><\/span>, a West Virginia University teaching professor specializing in fraud and forensic accounting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe risk to a committee or nonprofit organization of a fraud event, and future donor confidence in the organization from a major, newsworthy fraud, is a major risk for these groups,\u201d Weber said.<\/p>\n

Pelham told NOTUS that effective ways to prevent political committee fraud include surprise audits, allowing anonymous whistleblower tips from staffers, designating separate people for different financial jobs such as writing and depositing checks, and having more than one person with full access to financial information and accounts.<\/p>\n

Organizations that have a political committee may also turn to their insurers, which often cover employee dishonesty.<\/p>\n

After the daughter of the Seafarers International Union allegedly embezzled<\/u><\/span> from union-linked PACs last year, Chubb gave one of the political committees nearly $293,000 for \u201cinsurance recovery\u201d \u201cembezzlements by former Treasurer,\u201d according to an FEC report filed by the Seafarers Political Activity Donation PAC on April 20.<\/p>\n

Chubb did not respond to requests for comment. No federal charges appear to have been filed against the PAC\u2019s former treasurer.<\/p>\n

In his years following cases of embezzlement from political committees, Mason told NOTUS that he\u2019s seen \u201cover and over\u201d personal challenges such as alcoholism, gambling addiction and unhealthy romantic entanglements push people to take actions once unimaginable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are crimes of human nature, and the thing that people have to realize is that good people do bad things,\u201d Mason told NOTUS.<\/p>\n

These crimes of human nature often have human consequences.<\/p>\n

Beth Krom, who served from 2004 to 2008 as mayor of Irvine, California, hired Durkee as her campaign treasurer while running for Congress in 2010. Krom didn\u2019t win the election, but her campaign avoided the kind of embezzlement that plagued Feinstein, attributing that to her committee\u2019s internal financial controls.<\/p>\n

Political embezzlers should certainly face appropriate legal consequences, Krom said, \u201cbut if I saw Kinde [Durkee] in the supermarket, I\u2019d talk to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully people who do this learn from their mistakes and they find redemption,\u201d Krom added.<\/p>\n

To pay back the National Venture Capital Association, Murphy\u2019s parents said they took on a new mortgage and his father has indefinitely postponed his planned retirement.<\/p>\n

His parents are standing with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurning our backs on Jonas when he needed help was never an option \u2014 not then, and not now,\u201d Murphy\u2019s mother, Cathy, wrote in a to Judge Sullivan. She later added, \u201cThe cost to our family has been great, and we willingly paid it because we believe Jonas\u2019s life has meaning and value.\u201d<\/p>\n

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