In Argyle, Texas, Troy Mac Hohenberger — the fire chief of a Denton County emergency services district — was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release after a board financial review uncovered that he had been embezzling from the firefighters' pension fund. Hohenberger pulled money from the retirement fund through casino cash advances, gambling away savings that belonged to the very firefighters who had served under his command. The court ordered him to pay $509,807.50 in restitution along with a separate $28,048.34 forfeiture. The men who answered calls under his leadership had trusted that the fund protecting their futures was secure, never knowing that the chief overseeing it was feeding their retirements into casino machines one cash advance at a time. ––– Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.