1978
“A Hollywood that often tends to shrug off its intermittent, gaudy scandals of sex and drugs is plainly running said of business practices which “started with an isolated case of corporate embezzlement.... Show-business figures—fed up with what they contend is a pattern of deceit and distrust—are breaking movieland’s traditional code of silence to tell their stories about padded budgets, secret payoffs and kickbacks.” Last year, former chief executive of Aviron Pictures William Sadleir pled guilty to federal fraud and money laundering charges of over $30 million dollars.
