Back in 1988 when the Los Angeles Dodgers picked Bill Bene in the first round, Major League Baseball was primed, improbably, to have three stars with an oddly similar name: Bene, Billy Bean and Billy Beane. A three-be(a)n(e) salad, if you will. True stardom in baseball never came for any of them, but at least two of the Bills went on to have success in their lives. The other? Not so much. Bene reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he operated a counterfeit karaoke business and failed to pay taxes on the income he earned. Counterfeit karaoke is a thing? Sounds like something the Yakuza might dabble in. Is it like what happens when you get a new recording of the music on what you thought was a classic song? I hate when that happens on iTunes with Bachman-Turner Overdrive and such. Original recordings by the original artists, only, please! Anyway, here's the gist via LAist : [Bene] sold counterfeit karaoke machines between 2006 and 2010, and did not report over $600,000 in sales to the Internal Revenue Service, according to City News Service. As part of his scheme, Bene illegally copied and sold karaoke songs on hard drives containing about 122,000 titles...