Charges: Producer hit sour note with fake play on opera star

NEW YORK — A Broadway producer has been charged with scamming seven people by getting them to invest $165,000 in a nonexistent play about opera star Kathleen Battle supposedly starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o. Roland Scahill pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny and scheming to defraud. His […]