Another reality star has been indicted on bankruptcy fraud and this time it is Abby Lee Miller of the highly successful Lifetime Dance Moms.
According to WSJ.com:
The grand-jury indictment of [Miller], who is accused of hiding payments she got from her appearance on the reality TV show, traces back to a night in January 2013 when Judge Thomas Agresti came across Ms. Miller’s “Ultimate Dance Competition” on television, according to court papers.
Ms. Miller had filed for bankruptcy in December 2010, facing $356,466.52 in debt, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh. Her lawyers had said in early court papers that Ms. Miller had the potential to profit from the show, but money from those appearances wasn’t disclosed in the monthly reports that documented her income.
At one point in 2010, Ms. Miller told a court official that the reality show would bring in publicity “but no separate TV revenue,” according to court papers.
Ms. Miller told Judge Agresti that she could only afford to pay back a portion of the money she owes just a few weeks before the channel-surfing moment aired on television.
“I realized that there’s an awful lot of money coming into this plan—this case—and it hasn’t been disclosed,” said Judge Agresti said of that moment, according to a transcript of a Feb. 1, 2013, hearing
Lawyers for Ms. Miller did not immediately return requests for comment. (Source)
