{"id":85800,"date":"2017-01-18T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85800"},"modified":"2017-01-18T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T02:20:41","slug":"alanis-morissette-manager-admits-to-4-8m-theft-from-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/18\/alanis-morissette-manager-admits-to-4-8m-theft-from-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette manager admits to $4.8M theft from singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_85802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85802\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85802\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2.jpg\" alt=\"Alanis Morissette manager admits to $4.8M theft from singer (Photo By livepict.com (livepict.com) [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Alanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanis Morissette manager admits to $4.8M theft from singer (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAlanis_Morissette_at_Espacio_Movistar_2.jpg\"> livepict.com (livepict.com) [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>LOS ANGELES\u2014The former business manager for Alanis Morissette admitted embezzling more than $7 million from the singer and other celebrities and agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Todd Schwartz, 48, of Los Angeles, was charged with wire fraud and filing a false tax return for failing to report the embezzled funds, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz admitted stealing nearly $5 million from Morissette between May 2010 and January 2014. He used the money personally and falsely listed the cash withdrawals as \u201csundry\/personal expenses&#8221; to cover up the crime.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted about the theft, Schwartz lied and said he invested the money in an illegal marijuana growing business, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz also admitted to stealing $2.3 million from five other clients who were not named in court documents or disclosed by attorneys in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Nathan Hochman said Schwartz had fully co-operated with investigators and accepted responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 23 years in federal prison if convicted, though his plea deal calls for a sentence between four and six years.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz had worked for GSO Business Management, a company whose website touts the financial guidance it provides to several high-profile celebrities. A company representative said Schwartz no longer worked there.<\/p>\n<p>Morissette sued Schwartz last year in Los Angeles Superior Court, but the lawsuit was dismissed after GSO and Morissette announced a settlement. Morissette&#8217;s publicist had no comment.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz is scheduled to appear Feb. 1 in U.S. District Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014The former business manager for Alanis Morissette admitted embezzling more than $7 million from the singer and other celebrities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[13893,13894],"class_list":["post-85800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-alanis-morissette","tag-jonathan-todd-schwartz","mauthors-brian-melley","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}