Manager sentenced for scam

A Hollywood talent manager has pleaded no contest to 1 count of operating funding-fee talent representation service and neglecting to file a $50,000 bond using the Condition Labor Commission. The La City Attorney's office introduced Thursday that Patrick W. O'Brien, 51, operator of Pat O'Brien Talent Management and Talent Marketing and Promotions Corporation., was purchased to pay for restitution for performing a $3,000 bait-and-switch scam on ambitious stars as well as their parents. Deputy City Attorney Mark Lambert punished the situation. Judge Yolanda Orozco sentenced defendant O'Brien to 3 years' probation and 3 months in jail or 45 times of community labor together with having to pay $6,000 restitution to 3 sufferers. He seemed to be purchased to seal lower the Talent Marketing and Promotions business, to not advertise any audition or employment chance and also to don't have any participation with any talent training service or talent listing service anywhere inside or outdoors the condition of California, including any seminar, camping or educational facility. Orozco also purchased O'Brien to not engage in any company that evolves or produces movies, television, the web or other entertainment enterprise. The situation involved an Arizona mother and her 15-year-old boy. Mom responded this past year to some casting notice for any teen sitcom project, after which it the boy was asked to audition in the Hollywood Center Galleries and subsequently before O'Brien. Throughout another interview, O'Brien signed the boy to some management contract. O'Brien also offered the victim a "photo shoot and acting classes" package for pretty much $3,000, which brought the household to relocate to California therefore the boy could take part in the classes. The Town Attorney's office stated a complete refund was asked for but never provided which following the situation was filed, two more parents approached the town Attorney's office and filed a complaint against O'Brien and the business. Another talent manager, Nicholas Roses, 21, pleaded no contest a week ago to 2 counts and was sentenced by Orozco to 3 years' probation and also to pay $10,700 as a whole restitution towards the three worrying witnesses in addition to $2,000 in investigative costs. Moves come annually following the city cautioned casting training courses and talent services it would enforce stiffened condition rules barring "pay to audition" ripoffs, with city attorney Carmen Trutanich delivering out about 200 letters to inform the operators the Krekorian Act choose to go into effect (Daily Variety, April 22, 2010). Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com