A cashstrapped, luxuryloving Walt Disney Co. secretary was busted yesterday in a plot to peddle inside information with her boyfriend so she could live out a Cinderella fantasy of designer handbags and shoes.
Bonnie Jean Hoxie whose Facebook status reads, "I go shopping shopping shopping!!" allegedly told failed restaurateur Yonni Sebbag to spend some of their illicit profits on a $700 Stella McCartney "hobo"style bag in metallic navy fake patent leather from Neiman Marcus.
"Here is the bag that you are going to get for me thank [sic]," the 33yearold emailed on May 11, helpfully including official michael kors outlet a link to the purse on the store's Web site, court papers say.
Sebbag, 29, allegedly wrote back promising to make the purchase, "I may be able to [buy] u 2 of them, lol."
"In that case, i also love love these shoes," Hoxie replied, giving him a link to a pair of Stella McCartney blue, opentoed ladderstrap stilettos at the Neiman Marcus site, according to a civil suit filed yesterday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Since 2007, Hoxie had worked for Disney's head of corporate communications, Zenia Mucha, once a top aide to former Gov. George michael kors cyber monday Pataki and exSen. Al D'Amato. But on Tuesday, Hoxie was expelled from the Magic Kingdom's corporate headquarters in Burbank, Calif.
She was later released on $50,000 bond and ordered to show up for a June 3 Manhattan court hearing.
"I was really shocked. She was shocked, too," said Theodore Hoxie, 25, who called his sister "a really good person" who "had fallen in with the wrong people."
He said he had to tell their parents about her arrest over a pay phone because his big sis can't afford a cellphone or a land line.
Meanwhile, Moroccanborn Sebbag, who was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, has been having his own share of money troubles. His Yonni's Coffee Shop in Hollywood went bellyup earlier this year amid mounting tax liens.
A criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court alleges the pair embarked on their insidertrading scheme in March, based on Hoxie's "access" to Disney inside information.
In an anonymous letter sent to dozens of investment firms, they offered to share information about the company's upcoming quarterly earnings report "for a fee," the feds said.
Once the FBI caught wind of the scam, undercover agents posing as hedgefund traders began corresponding with Sebbag, who used the name "Jonathan Cyrus."
On May 8 three days before the earnings report was to be released he sent them copies of a 107page document titled "The Walt Disney Company Q2 Fiscal 2010 Key Topics Speaking Points."
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