On Oct 21, 3:36 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:06:07 -0500, "Carl"

> wrote:
>
> >I would have thought that the first time they tried to pay a writer under
> >that type of agreement they would have been taken to court and their books
> >and accounting practices would be laid out like a gutted trout. They'd
> >eventually have to conform to a set of accounting rules imposed on them from
> >the outside, and I doubt they would have cared for that idea.
>
> Well, you'd think so, but the studios regularly cheat others with that
> arrangement, as do the record companies. Why they aren't all in jail
> for fraud is something I've never understood.

I wonder if it's actually quite common for these white collar
criminals to keep records of the real figures so that they are able to
pay their taxes correctly without getting in trouble with the IRS.
Perhaps there are some cases where it would be worth getting a search
warrant and seeing whether a corporation's offices contain
incriminating records.

Matthew
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