Pearlman mum in Guam courtroom
Youth-pop mogul Lou Pearlman, wanted on bank fraud charges in Florida, appeared Friday before a federal judge in Hagatna, Guam, but the proceeding was halted when the former fugitive refused to answer questions regarding his financial assets. Authorities had been trying to track Pearlman since December, and the FBI announced Thursday that he had been arrested in Bali after being expelled from Indonesia and labeled an “undesirable visitor” by authorities there.
Pearlman made his money in aviation and then took his Trans Continental Airlines brand name to pop music in the 1990s with Trans Continental Records in Orlando, Fla., where he shaped the careers of the Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync and O-Town, acts that together sold more than 100 million albums. Many of his acts later criticized him for exploiting them.
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Geoff Boucher
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