City Shafts Taxpayers Again by Giving Away City Owned Property to Friends and Family Ankle Biter by Michael C. Hild - June 2, 2016June 3, 2016106 In other cities corrupt acts by elected officials and their staff is called graft, larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or cronyism. And these folks go to jail for this type of behavior. In Richmond however, the City bureaucracy has grown so emboldened they don't even blush anymore when committing the most egregious acts.