The former director of the Quincy Department of Elder Services is facing federal charges after he allegedly embezzled thousands of dollars from the city.

A longtime Massachusetts bureaucrat allegedly stole taxpayer money meant for seniors and spent the ill-gotten funds on his own music studio recordings, loads of bourbon steak tips, a fancy lacquered portrait of himself and a Pruis,

A former official in Quincy has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating an “utterly disgraceful” scheme in which he embezzled thousands in taxpayer dollars for self expenditures