Editing Mark Whitacre (section)

===Whitacre embezzlement===
A few years into the price-fixing investigation, Whitacre confessed to his FBI handlers that he had been involved with corporate [[Kickback (bribery)|kickback]]s and [[money laundering]] at ADM.<ref name="Henkoff"/> Whitacre was later convicted of embezzling $9&nbsp;million; some of this criminal activity occurred during the time he was cooperating with the FBI.<ref name="DOJ">{{cite press release |title= Former ADM Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud |publisher= [[United States Department of Justice]] |date= October 10, 1997 |url= http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/October97/425crm.html |access-date= September 20, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090530212244/http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/October97/425crm.html |archive-date= May 30, 2009|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="AP">{{Harvnb|''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|1996 |url= http://lubbockonline.com/stories/070698/0706980006.shtml |access-date= 2009-09-20 |url-status= dead}}</ref>