They stole my idea - that never happens in Hollywood
Ok - so Cheese and I were driving around Austin, and I was trying to convince him that it would be a great idea to start some buzz with the swells, hire some ex-Hollywood talent (think 1970s TV stars - after all you can hire Pedro for your party for a mere $2k), and create a fake play, musical, etc. to raise some money for the cause (that is the cause of us not having to have real jobs).
I thought it would be a good idea - fake sell-out a few shows - and then have a "final performance" where you'd sell out the place and make off with the dough. It'd be a lot of effort on the front end (unless we could hire the homeless and/or disenfrachised to make all of the playbills), but there could be some money there. I'd just need to get my hands on one of those offshore accounts. Apparently, The Spanish Prisoner taught me that it really isn't that hard to do.
So what happens, but a few days later I am reading Drudge and I find this:
Producer Sentenced In Fraud Case Regarding Bogus TV Show
LOS ANGELES -- A sometime-producer who fleeced investors out of millions of dollars by claiming he was creating a television series based on the Department of Homeland Security was sentenced Monday to one year in prison.
The term imposed on Joseph Medawar, 44, is less than a quarter of what prosecutors had sought.
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real said the sentence was designed so Medawar -- who spent his victims' investments on such expenses as a $40,000-per-month rented mansion for the bogus series' supposed leading lady -- can begin earning the money he will need if he is to make the court-ordered restitution of $3.46 million to his victims. Under the judge's order, that amount could be reduced by roughly $1 million if the losses cannot be verified.
Taken from - http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10462291/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
Ok - so not exactly the same idea, but close enough. And for $3.46 million dollars, I think he could have bought a nice villa somewhere sunny and quiet . . .
Hmm . . . maybe it would have been better as a screenplay?
Ok - so Cheese and I were driving around Austin, and I was trying to convince him that it would be a great idea to start some buzz with the swells, hire some ex-Hollywood talent (think 1970s TV stars - after all you can hire Pedro for your party for a mere $2k), and create a fake play, musical, etc. to raise some money for the cause (that is the cause of us not having to have real jobs).
I thought it would be a good idea - fake sell-out a few shows - and then have a "final performance" where you'd sell out the place and make off with the dough. It'd be a lot of effort on the front end (unless we could hire the homeless and/or disenfrachised to make all of the playbills), but there could be some money there. I'd just need to get my hands on one of those offshore accounts. Apparently, The Spanish Prisoner taught me that it really isn't that hard to do.
So what happens, but a few days later I am reading Drudge and I find this:
Producer Sentenced In Fraud Case Regarding Bogus TV Show
LOS ANGELES -- A sometime-producer who fleeced investors out of millions of dollars by claiming he was creating a television series based on the Department of Homeland Security was sentenced Monday to one year in prison.
The term imposed on Joseph Medawar, 44, is less than a quarter of what prosecutors had sought.
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real said the sentence was designed so Medawar -- who spent his victims' investments on such expenses as a $40,000-per-month rented mansion for the bogus series' supposed leading lady -- can begin earning the money he will need if he is to make the court-ordered restitution of $3.46 million to his victims. Under the judge's order, that amount could be reduced by roughly $1 million if the losses cannot be verified.
Taken from - http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10462291/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
Ok - so not exactly the same idea, but close enough. And for $3.46 million dollars, I think he could have bought a nice villa somewhere sunny and quiet . . .
Hmm . . . maybe it would have been better as a screenplay?
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