'D.H.S.': The Fraud
How did I miss this? From Variety, posted on Sunday:
Producer Joseph M. Medawar was arrested Friday by FBI and IRS agents on charges he bilked investors out of more than $5.5 million for a TV series about the Dept. of Homeland Security that never existed.
Here's the cheesy Web site for the alleged show, called "D.H.S." Medawar and his associate, Alison Heruth-Waterbury, never came close to actually getting it off the ground, but did succeed in suckering various media outlets, including the Boston Globe, E! Online and National Public Radio's "On the Media," into believing that they had actually won Bush administration support for the show.
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