Barbara Chalmers News Today

M G.K. Butterfield, a North Carolina congressman for 18 years, explained that he was beginning a new job involving lobbying and policy work and needed to be on the payroll before the new year to get his benefits in place, so he took to the House floor to announce his retirement one day early.

A Texas woman pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Texas for a scheme to embezzle at least $29 million from her employer – a charitable foundation and several other companies run by a Dallas family.

The 74-year-old bookkeeper wrote herself 175 checks over a decade from a number of the family's companies.