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# Former Exec Accused Of Embezzling $1M From Warner Music
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/former-exec-accused-of-embezzling-1m-from-warner-music/
- Published: 2014-02-05T11:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-05T11:28:00.000Z
- Description: Former Warner Music executive and Obama fundraiser Danielle Smith has been accused of embezzling more than $1 million from the music group. Smith had been an exec in the urban. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/02/former-exec-accused-of-embezzling-1m-from-warner-music.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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Former Warner Music executive and Obama fundraiser Danielle Smith has been accused of embezzling more than $1 million from the music group. Smith had been an exec in the urban music department of Atlantic Records in Los Angeles.

Smith reportedly booked non-business related trips and "luxury goods" on her company credit card totalling $1.3 million between 2007 and 2011\. Lte last week, she turned herself in at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and was arraigned on charges of first-degree grand larceny, according to the [New York Post](http://nypost.com/2014/02/04/former-warner-music-exec-allegedy-embezzled-over-1m/?ref=hypebot.com). She pleaded not guilty.

During the 2012 election, Smith was a top Obama fundraising bundler attracting between $200,000 and $500,000 to the campaign. She is back in New York court on Wednesday morning.

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