COURT DOCUMENTS: Debbie Allen Claims $1 Million Embezzled From Her Company

May 28 2018, Updated 10:18 a.m. ET
Dancer, choreographer and actress Debbie Allen is suing her former business managers, Keepers Financial, Nigro, Karlin, Segal & Field LLPs, and several other individuals claiming they pilfered $1 million from the bank accounts of her production company, Red Bird Productions.
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According to court documents obtained by Breaking Celebrity News.com, Allen hired Keepers Financial as her business managers in 2005.
Allen alleges in the lawsuit that Diane Schumacher, who is named as one of the defendants and worked for Keepers Financial, often paid Allen’s credit card bills late, if at all.
"Records show that Plaintiff’s bills were regularly paid late, resulting in excessive late fees to Plaintiff’s detriment. Sometimes bills were not paid at all, causing Plaintiff’s accounts and credit cards to be suspended and/or terminated."
In September 2009, Allen learned for the first time from Nicole Katz - the owner of Keepers Financial - that Schumacher had been “fraudulently embezzling, co-mingling, converting, and transferring monies belonging to Allen and Red Bird Production for several years, and that this fraudulent activity had gone undetected or willfully ignored by the other named Defendants.”
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