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AMARILLO, Texas - A former employee of the City of Amarillo will be spending time in federal prison after being convicted of embezzling thousands intended to house the homeless.

The former grant manager was found to have stolen over $121,000 from the federal program, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

Former Amarillo employee convicted

Vanessa Robinson, 35, worked for the City of Amarillo from 2013 to 2024 in their community development department. She was responsible for distributing funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to homeless or near-homeless individuals in the city with housing costs. Instead, Robinson pocketed many of those dollars for years.

Robinson was shown to have embezzled in several ways. Nearly $35,000 was stol

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