NEW YORK (AP) — The producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca" filed a civil lawsuit Friday against a Long Island securities dealer who was charged criminally this week with sinking the show with a bizarre fraud that involved fictitious investors and a faked death. Mark Hotton, a one-time stock broker for Oppenheimer & Co., was arrested on Monday. Prosecutors accused him of flimflamming "Rebecca" lead producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza with an elaborate scheme in which he pretended to have raised $4.5 million in investments for the musical in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in commission and travel expenses. But the investors he claimed to have recruited all turned out to...
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