Two people posing as booking agents have been arrested for claiming they could get Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars to perform at a concert benefitting Sandy Hook Promise. 51-year old Nancy Jean of Georgia and 41-year old Carissa Scott of Mississippi have been arrested for a scheme to defraud concert investors through false claims.
They were arrested at JFK Airport Wednesday and appeared in court yesterday. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York says in the complaint that the pair were contacted about a conecrt at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, to benefit the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation. They provided the investor with a contract for a total fee of $500,000 that purported to commit Timberlake to perform.
The investor wired $100,000. Approximately half of the money was used by the defendants for personal expenses or withdrawn as cash.
When Timberlake’s social media account failed to mention or promote the event, the investor requested confirmation, and someone claiming to he his manager said he would perform at the concert, but that the fee would have to be raised to between $800,000 and $1 million. The defendants then allegedly sent the investor an agreement stating that Mars would perform at the concert as an alternative to Timberlake for a fee of $600,000.
The investor agreed that Mars could be the headliner, but did not send an additional deposit.
