{"id":1833,"date":"2012-07-02T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/02\/u2-bassists-adam-claytons-ex-assistant-found-guilty-of-embezzling-35-million\/"},"modified":"2012-07-02T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:31:12","slug":"u2-bassists-adam-claytons-ex-assistant-found-guilty-of-embezzling-35-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/07\/02\/u2-bassists-adam-claytons-ex-assistant-found-guilty-of-embezzling-35-million\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Bassist&#8217;s Adam Clayton&#8217;s Ex-Assistant Found Guilty of Embezzling $3.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nIWfPUjZXiU\/T-hgnRRU6xI\/AAAAAAAAKnI\/ouGPt5_fLCw\/s1600\/adam_clayton.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"179\" \/><br \/>Carol Hawkins, who worked for the musician for 17 years, has been convicted on 181 counts of theft.  <!--more-->  <br \/>A former assistant for U2&#8217;s Adam Clayton has been convicted of embezzling about $3.5 million (2.8 million euros) from the bassist, Rolling Stone reports.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Hawkins, who worked for Clayton for 17 years, was found guilty in Dublin on 181 counts of theft from 2004 to 2008, during which she had been a signatory on two of Clayton&#8217;s bank accounts and wrote checks to her personal account. Among her splashiest purchases: 22 horses, luxury vacations and a Volkwagen Golf.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Hawkins confessed to spending between $16,300 and $18,000 (13,000-15,000 euros) of Clayton&#8217;s money to see her kids in the U.S. and London. She has been released on bail and will be sentenced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Hawkins, who worked for the musician for 17 years, has been convicted on 181&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}