Focus Media Execs Indicted Over Sears

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CHICAGO Five years after Sears Roebuck and Co. and Focus Media feuded in civil court about the payment of media bills, two of the company’s former top executives have been charged with stealing $23 million from the retailer, according to an indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.

Thomas Edward Rubin, 57, and Thomas Patrick Sullivan,63, are charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud, according to the indictment. Rubin and Sullivan were chairman and chief financial officer, respectively, of the independent Santa Monica, Calif.,

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