{"id":5187,"date":"2020-12-03T01:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2020-12-03T02:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:54:18","slug":"prosecutors-ex-wife-of-toms-river-grammy-winner-stole-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/12\/prosecutors-ex-wife-of-toms-river-grammy-winner-stole-100k\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors: Ex-Wife of Toms River Grammy Winner Stole $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5188\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seal_theft.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Erin Seal (Photo: OCPO)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Erin Seal (Photo: OCPO)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5188\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seal_theft.jpg\" alt=\"Erin Seal (Photo: OCPO)\" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seal_theft.jpg 618w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seal_theft-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Seal (Photo: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ex-wife of a Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer, formerly of Toms River, stole approximately $100,000 from her former spouse, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office charged Erin Seal, 35, of Lindenwold, with theft after she surrendered to detectives alongside her attorney Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement, an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Economic Crimes Unit revealed that Seal devised a scheme to have music royalty checks made payable to her estranged husband, Manuel Seal, 60, formerly of Toms River, for his work as a Grammy Award winning songwriter and producer, forwarded \u201cdirectly to her and for her benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erin Seal \u201cutilized a family member to cash those checks under the guise that she was lawfully entitled to them and relied upon fake emails purportedly sent by the victim to the defendant to support her criminal scheme,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>During the time period spanning May 2018 through April 2020, Erin Seal fraudulently received approximately $100,000, authorities allege.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Seal has been nominated for 13 Grammy awards and has won one. He is credited with contributing to projects with such major artists as Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher, Nelly, Jermaine Dupri and Ron Isley.<\/p>\n<p>His song \u201cMy Boo\u201d from Usher\u2019s 2004 album <em>Confessions<\/em> went on to sell more than 10 million copies in America.<\/p>\n<p>After turning herself in, Seal was processed and released on a summons pending a future court date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/12\/prosecutors-ex-wife-of-toms-river-grammy-winner-stole-100k\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-wife of a Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer, formerly of Toms River, stole approximately $100,000 from her former spouse, prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office charged Erin Seal, 35, of Lindenwold, with theft after she surrendered to detectives alongside her attorney Wednesday. According to a statement, an investigation by the Ocean County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[1150,1151,19,11],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-erin-seal","tag-manuel-seal","tag-theft","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seal_theft.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}