Accused dine-and-dash dater is charged with 10 felonies; was the conduct extortion?

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has charged a Milton, Mass., man with using a fraudulent house-flipping scheme to convince friends and investors to lend him money that he then used on restaurants, hotels and groceries. Galvin's office, which is charged with enforcing the state's securities law, said Ricardo “Rick” Bernard never spent the…