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<BODY> <TABLE ID="Table1" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="630"> <tbody> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="460"> <P><span id="lblSubchannelTitle" style="font-size: medium;"><IMG SRC="newsglobal_title.gif" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></P> <P><span id="TitleTextPlaceHolderControl" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> Duo jailed for Wendy's finger scam </span><BR> </P> <P><TABLE ID="Table2" ALIGN="RIGHT" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="190"> <tbody> <TR> <TD ID="td001"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <tbody> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <span id="MainPicture"><IMG SRC="wendyfood.jpg" WIDTH="190" HEIGHT="151" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></span></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <P ALIGN=LEFT><STRONG><FONT SIZE="-2"><span id="phMainCaption">Wendy's says it lost $2.5 million from bad publicity</span></FONT></STRONG></TD> </TR></tbody> </TABLE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD></TD> </TR></tbody> </TABLE></P> <P> </P> <P><span id="HtmlSummary" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;">A US court has sentenced a <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nevada</st1:place></st1:state> couple to nine years in prison for planting a human finger in a bowl of chili as part of a scam to defraud the Wendy's fast food chain. <o:p></o:p></P> </span> <P><span id="HtmlArticle"></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">On Wednesday a judge in Santa Clara Superior Court in California sentenced Anna Ayala, 40, and her husband, Jaime Plascencia, 44, to nine years imprisonment for their role in the Wendy's scam. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">In tears, Ayala said: "I am truly sorry. I owe Wendy's and its employees an apology. Wendy's had always been my family's favourite fast food restaurant." <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">She called her actions "a moment of poor judgment",and apologised for bringing shame upon her family.</span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"></span> </P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">The scam caused a sharp fall in sales at Wendy's, the third-largest <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> burger chain.</span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"></span> </P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><STRONG>Uncooked finger<o:p></o:p></STRONG></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">In her initial claim in March last year, Ayala said she was immediately sick after biting into the fingertip while dining with her family at a Wendy's in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Jose</st1:place></st1:city>. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> <TABLE ALIGN="RIGHT" BGCOLOR="#f0e3c7" BORDER="0" bordercolor="#111111" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="190"> <tbody> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="100%"> <P ALIGN=LEFT><STRONG><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="verdana">"I am truly sorry. I owe Wendy's and its employees an apology"<BR> <BR> </FONT></STRONG><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana">Anna Ayala</FONT></TD> </TR></tbody> </TABLE>Although authorities suspected a hoax - in part because the finger was not cooked - word of the stomach-turning find quickly spread around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">The fast food chain claimed it lost $2.5 million in sales because of the bad publicity. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">Dozens of workers at the company's <st1:place w:st="on">Northern California</st1:place> franchises were sacked because of the slowdown. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><B><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">False claim</span></B></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">No Wendy's employee was missing a digit at the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Jose</st1:place></st1:city> restaurant, and no chili suppliers reported finger injuries at their plants. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">In April, Ayala was arrested at her suburban <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1:city></st1:place> home for filing a false claim against the restaurant chain. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></P> <P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">A lengthy search for the finger's owner eventually pointed to one of Plascencia's co-workers, who was paid $100 for his digit after losing it in an accident at the paving company where he worked, police said. <o:p></o:p></span></P> <P><IMG SRC="newsglobal_title.gif" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></P> <div id="PanelInfoSource"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> <br>Partneroldalak: <br> <a href="http://domain.domainshop.hu/domain.html" alt="tárhely domainregisztráció">Domain regisztráció tár és szerverszolgáltatások: domain domainnév tárhely e-mail, imap, pop3</a><br> <a href="http://www.webtar.hu" alt="tárhely donainregisztráció">www.webtar.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.micropay.hu" alt="micropay">www.micropay.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.ingyenweb.hu" alt="ingyenweb">www.ingyenweb.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.videok.hu" alt="Videók">www.videok.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.xn--antikvrium-x4a.hu" alt="Antikvárium">www.antikvárium.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.ftpdir.hu" alt="ftpdir">www.ftpdir.hu</a><br> <a href="http://xn--fotk-sqa.hu" alt="fotók">www.fotók.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.randi.hu" alt="Randi">www.randi.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.licit.hu" alt="Licit">www.licit.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.napivicc.hu" alt="vicc">www.napivicc.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.gyertyalang.hu" alt="gyertyagyújtás">www.gyertyalang.hu</a><br> <a href="http://www.xn--helyesrs-fza2j.hu" alt="helyesírás.hu">www.helyesírás.hu</a><br> <a href="http://domain.webtar.hu/domain.html" alt="Domain regiszráció és tárhely">Domain regisztráció</a><br>