 In 1977, Klein testified that he had not instructed Bennett to sell promotional copies of albums and that although he'd received cash payments from Bennett, the payments were a return of cash advances that Bennett had been given.In 1979, a jury found Klein innocent of the felony charges and convicted him of a single misdemeanor charge of making false statements on his 1972 tax return, for which he served two months in jail.Bennett was referred to in "Billboard" magazine as the man who "made unknowns into stars and stars into superstars".