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NorCal Man Embezzles Nearly $5 Million From Employer, Spends $1 Million on Smartphone Game

After stealing $4.8 million from his employers, Kevin Lee Co went a spending spree and bought everything from season tickets for the Sacramento Kings to plastic surgery.

But his oddest expenditure was on the addictive smartphone game “Game of War.”

According to federal prosecutors, Co spent a lion’s share of the embezzled funds – approximately $1 million – on the game.

On Thursday, 45-year-old Rocklin, Calif., resident pleaded guilty on Thursday to money laundering and wire fraud after he was accused of embezzling funds from his employer, Holt of California.

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