Fight Club author says his income has dwindled, as Darin Webb is charged with embezzling $3.4m from his literary agency
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk has said that he is “close to broke” after it emerged that an accountant at his literary agency had been arrested for embezzling $3.4m (£2.5m) from the company.
Darin Webb, an accountant at Donadio and Olson in New York, was charged on 15 May with “defraud[ing] a literary agency during his engagement as that agency’s bookkeeper, by converting funds that belonged to the agency and its clients to his own use”. The charge states that Webb allegedly admitted in video interviews that he prepared monthly financial reports and sent emails to the agency’s clients “that contained false and fraudulent representations, in order to accomplish the theft and evade detection”. The complaint does not name the literary agency, but the name was confirmed to the New York Post by Donadio and Olson’s lawyer.
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