The New York composer taken for up to $20 million by two alleged scammers who convinced him he was the target of an assassination plot had put them on the board of his music charity — and gave them access to a $60 million family trust, records show.
Pianist Roger Davidson, 58, appointed accused con artists Vickram Bedi and Helga Ingvarsdottir to his Society for Universal Sacred Music, IRS records show.
Davidson, an heir to the $36 billion Schlumberger oil-services company fortune, then made Bedi a trustee of his multimillion-dollar Redwood II F trust. Bedi then signed off on an investment deal that lost $12 million, court papers claim.
Bedi, 36, and Ingvarsdottir, 39, were arrested last week at their Chappaqua home in the alleged plot.
Davidson first met the couple in 2004, when he took his computer to their Mount Kisco shop.
Bedi allegedly convinced him the computer had been hit with a virus, and concocted a wild assassination plot involving the ultra-conservative Catholic Opus Dei group.
Davidson began paying the pair millions in protection money, officials say.