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West Islip man charged with bilking 'Rebecca'

A Long Island businessman has been arrested and

A Long Island businessman has been arrested and charged with defrauding producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca," federal authorities said early Monday morning. Videojournalists: Jim Staubister and Ed Betz (Oct. 15, 2012) (October 15, 2012 5:16 PM)

A West Islip man has been charged by federal prosecutors with three alleged frauds worth close to $5 million, including bilking the producers of a Broadway show out of $60,000 by inventing imaginary backers, prosecutors said.

Mark Hotton, 46, a financier, who lives in the Babylon Cove section of West Islip, was charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan Monday with wire fraud for falsely...

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