I''m an entertainer who works as an independent contractor on cruise ships. My agent is based in Florida.

The cruise lines I work for have a pay policy where they send my pay for the work I''ve done for them to my agent, who is then supposed to take his commission from it and send it to me. My agent was sending my pay to me quite slowly so I asked the cruise lines to send me my pay directly. They agreed and stopped sending my pay to my agent. However, my agent apparently had already spent many thousands of dollars of the money the cruise lines sent him to pay me and he was apparently intending to pay me this pay out of the next paythat the cruise lines sent him (which they had intended as my pay for work I had performed later). Without the additional pay sent to him my agent lacked funds to pay me. He received all of this money from the cruise lines in March and April 2012 and it is presently July 2012. I fired my agent at the end of June. He says he is going to try to send the money he owes me to me in July. Has he committed criminal conversion? What is the penalty he faces if so?