Former Epix Executive Indicted on Fraud, Identity Theft Charges

Former Epix Chief Digital Officer Emil Rensing was charged with defrauding his former employer of more than $8 million, in a federal indictment announced Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Rensing, 42, of Manhattan, used his position to have the company contract with two vendor companies he owned for various digital media services they never performed. The indictment also said the vendor personnel designated in the contracts often were former associates or partners of Rensing, but they had never heard of the vendors and were unaware of their names being used on the contracts. The indictment never names Rensing's employer, but his LinkedIn profile says he was with Epix during the five years in question, April 2010-August 2015. In a statement, Epix said Rensing was terminated by the company then and it's "cooperating fully" with the investigation. The U.S. Attorney's Office said he's charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, and one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries a maximum of two years. Rensing couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday