I’m sure lots of businesses make promises on which they don’t deliver, including promises of payments that are never made. At what point this rises to the level of fraud and becomes a criminal matter, I don’t know, but it strikes me as almost business as usual. Heck, the business’s obvious defense is that it intends to make good on its promises, just is temporarily encountering unforeseen delays.

I’d also bet that the modeling business is rife with these kinds of lowlifes. Come on, a guy with a camera and a telephone advertizing to attract pretty women willing to strip–what could go wrong here?

Thus it’s the video that intrigues me. There sure are a lot of cops with weapons drawn and breaking open the door to capture a guy whose offenses seem limited to failure to provide a promised product and not paying people the amount allegedly agreed. If the cops were similarly aggressive about capturing other slack businesspeople, we’d see armed squads breaking down doors almost daily in most neighborhoods.

So I have to ask: What’s different about this guy? Is it because he’s Nica? Because the charges are more serious than the article lets on? What?