 and disguised the payments with false entries that made them look like legitimate business expenses in the city's accounting records. He was placed on administrative leave and resigned in late 2018. But a year later, Adams used a similar method to embezzle while he was employed as a bookkeeper at an equipment company, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. It said he used wire transfers to launder the money and that he did not claim any of the embezzled funds in his tax returns for 2016 through 2021.