How would you like a house with an indoor swimming pool, two fully equipped kitchens – one downstairs and one upstairs – and an entertainment room with a big screen and movie projector?

Alex R. Spirikaitis, the former president/CEO of the liquidated Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union in Cleveland, once had all of this, plus more, until the FBI and local police came knocking on his door at his $1 million suburban house on the night of July 16.

Federal prosecutors suspect the $1 million home was built with funds embezzled by Spirikaitis from the $23.6 million Taupa Lithuanian before it was closed and liquidated in July by the NCUA.

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