One of the most undeniable hit-makers of the nineties, Alanis Morissette’s music has been raking it in for years, her ’95 release Jagged Little Pill spawning an array of huge singles and going on to sell a casual 33 million copies worldwide.

Rather than just being happy managing an artist with that sort of success under her belt, however, Morissette’s manager Jonathan Tod Schwartz has owned up to robbing the singer-songwriter of almost five million U.S. bucks, along with a cool couple of mil from some of his other clients.

The admission came as part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office, Deadline reports, in which the entertainment and sports manager confessed to embezzling more than $6m US in total from his clients, after being sued by Morissette last year.

Due to appear before the courts on February 1, he faces a maximum sentence of 23 years, but has reduced that to around 4 to 6 years under the plea deal – about a year for every million bucks. In addition to the crooked dealings with his clients, he’s also admitted to owing the tax department $1.7m as well, so he’s in pretty deep at this point.

He was, of course, condemned by U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker.

“Money managers have fiduciary and moral responsibilities to their clients that begin with preserving client assets and not using that money to line their own pockets,” she said of the case. “This defendant violated this basic principle, and then engaged in further criminal conduct by attempting to hide his ill-gotten gains from the Internal Revenue Service.

“Despite those efforts, however, the defendant will now face serious consequences for victimizing his clients and American taxpayers.”

Whether Morissette will be able to recover any of the money owed to her remains to be seen, but ‘Hand In My Pocket’ has taken on whole new meaning.

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