A former member of Pearl Jam’s management team has been charged with stealing $380,000 (€299,000) from the band. Rickey Charles Goodrich was chief financial officer with Curtis Inc, the band’s management company, when he is alleged to have taken money from the band’s accounts. Prosecutors say he committed the theft between 2006 and September 2010, when he was fired.
He had begun working for Pearl Jam in 2005, and joined Curtis Inc the following year.
Mr Goodrich has been charged with 33 counts of theft, and is expected to enter a plea on June 28th at his hearing at Seattle’s King County superior court. Prosecutors say he transferred money from company accounts to pay debts he and his wife had accrued. – (Guardian service)