Melissa King is in a bit of a bind. Her legal defense costs could mount to upwards of $5 million. She should probably have set aside some of her $500,000 annual “legitimate” salary in anticipation of the day she would be caught embezzling over $42 million from LIUNA Local 147. While serving as the benefits administrator for the local, she transferred some of the local’s money into funds under her control to feed her insatiable appetite for the good life, including mortgage payments, jewelry, luxury cars, chartered jets, horses and equestrian lessons for her daughter.
