L.I. Man Is Said to Have Connected Investor With ‘Rebecca’ Producer

NYTimes.com: A Long Island man with a history of civil fraud complaints against him, and who filed for personal bankruptcy in 2011 with $15 million in debts, steered the lead producer of the now-scuttled Broadway musical “Rebecca” to a mysterious investor whose recent death from malaria set the stage for the collapse of the musical, according to a person who learned about the middleman from the producer, Ben Sprecher.