According to this article on Playbill:

Susan Brinkley, who produced the long-running Off-Broadway rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, pleaded guilty May 24 to taking $48,000 from film and television directors Carl and Rob Reiner, and "Seinfeld" producer George Shapiro.

Brinkley accepted the money in 2001 with the understanding that it would be used to produce a play written by Annie Reiner, Carl's daughter. Instead, said Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, she put the money into Hedwig. When the Reiners and Shapiro filed a complaint, the office of state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer arranged a settlement in which Brinkley was to repay the trio and accept a lifetime ban on optioning new theatre projects. However, argued Morgenthau, Brinkley proceeded to repay the debt by stealing money from the nonprofit Ensemble Studio Theater, where she served as executive director.

Yeesh, what was she thinking? It was supposed to be for his daughter's play, for goodness sake. Did she think that Carl wouldn't notice?

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