Stanley Herbert Polley was an American entertainment manager and fraudster active in the 1960s and 1970s.
14 Facts About Stan Polley
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Stan Polley's clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie.
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Stan Polley began artist management after he met Lou Christie in the mid-1960s.
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In 1968, Stan Polley formed a company called Five Arts Management, for his work with singer Lou Christie, musician Al Kooper, arranger Charles Calello, TV director Michael Cooper, composer Sandy Linzer and WABC disc jockey Bob Lewis.
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Stan Polley formed further companies for legal and accounting purposes to manage artists including composers Irwin Levine and Larry Brown.
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In 1970, Stan Polley registered Badfinger Enterprises, Inc as a corporate entity for management of the British rock group Badfinger, which had no American representation at the time.
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In 1971, Stan Polley was named during US Senate investigation hearings as an intermediary between unnamed crime figures and a New York Supreme Court judge.
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Stan Polley's suicide note directly blamed Polley for his financial ruin.
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In 1991, Stan Polley pleaded no contest to charges of misappropriating funds and money laundering in Riverside County, California.
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Aeronautics engineer Peter Brock accused Stan Polley of swindling him out of $250,000 after the two set up a corporation to manufacture airplane engines.
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Stan Polley was placed on probation for five years and ordered by the court to return all missing funds to Brock, although the complainant said the restitution never materialized.
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Stan Polley died in Rancho Mirage, California, on July 20,2009.
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Stan Polley's clients included singer-producer Hank Medress, the rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, singer Lou Christie, Michael Cooper, Charles Calello, Sandy Linzer, Marty Ross and Bob Lewis.
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Multiple financial dealings by Stan Polley were found to be irregular and to the detriment of his clients, scamming them and causing the acts to fall apart.