L.A.-based agent Mark Measures indicted in Manhattan, accused of stealing from actor clients

Mark Measures, a longtime Los Angeles-based talent agent, has been indicted along with his agency, Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin and Associates, after authorities alleged he stole more than $1.8 million from 160 actors and about $26,000 in wages from employees at the agency’s New York City office. New York County Dist. Atty. Alvin L. Bragg Jr. said in … Read more

U.S. soldier has sentence reduced for threats of murder and stealing

An American soldier who was found guilty of making threats of murder and stealing in Russia had his more than three-year prison sentence reduced by seven months on Monday, state media reported. Last June, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, was sentenced to three years and nine months in the district of Primorsky Krai. But a … Read more