Fake Broadway Play Now Criminal Case
August 22, 2016
A former theater agent, Roland Scahill, sold investors on a phony Broadway play that was going to star Lupita N’yongo, the Manhattan District Attorney alleges. Scahill, formerly an agent at William Morris and Gersh, is accused of taking $165,000 from investors in the fake play, which was sold as a one-woman show about opera great Kathleen Battle. Scahill began selling shares in the play in October 2014, and when investors demanded their money back in fall 2015, he sent them checks that bounced. Scahill has not pled guilty to the charges.
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