California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff was arrested Wednesday and charged with plotting with accomplices to swipe $225,000 from inactive political campaigns and funnel it straight into a friend’s pocket, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Dana Williamson, 53, is now facing a sweeping 23-count federal indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, defrauding the United States, obstructing justice, filing false tax returns, and lying to authorities, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California .

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson (second to the left) was arrested Wednesday and charged with plotting with accomplices to swipe $225,000 from inactive political campaigns and funnel it st

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