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LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"A New York man who is the president of an entertainment production company based in North Carolina has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for embezzling more than $200,000 from a television production.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Ozer, 58, of Roslyn Heights, New York, was charged with one count of wire fraud. In a plea agreement also filed Tuesday, Ozer agreed to plead guilty to the felony offense.<\/span><\/p>\n

He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ozer is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As alleged in the information, Ozer is a producer and the president of Strong Studios Inc., a production company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also the producer of \u201cSafehaven,\u201d a supernatural thriller television series. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"LaAccording to his plea agreement, Ozer defrauded Ravenwood-Productions LLC, the principal financial backer of “Safehaven,\u201d by misappropriating approximately $214,486 in production funds from bank accounts for the production.<\/span><\/p>\n

To create the false appearance that the funds he embezzled were spent on legitimate production costs, Ozer created fraudulent accounting records, including falsified invoices, and forged a letter purportedly from his accountant. <\/span><\/p>\n

In reality, Ozer\u2019s accountant did not write the letter, its contents were false, and Ozer used his accountant\u2019s name without his accountant\u2019s authorization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ozer provided these falsified documents to a lawyer for Strong Studios and caused him to transmit them in an email on January 3, 2024, to an attorney for Ravenwood-Productions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI is investigating this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alexander B. Schwab of the Corporate and Securities Fraud Strike Force and Matt Coe-Odess of the General Crimes Section are prosecuting this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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