Yuen backtrack.Yuen Backtrack: Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc.'s former Chief Executive Henry Yuen withdrew his guilty plea to charges he destroyed evidence after a federal judge would not approve the terms of the agreement, Bloomberg News reported. U.S. District Judge John Walter
John Walter (1738/9 - November 17, 1812), founder of said at a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. hearing that the deal Yuen had struck with prosecutors "fails to provide adequate deterrence deterrence Military strategy whereby one power uses the threat of reprisal to preclude an attack from an adversary. The term largely refers to the basic strategy of the nuclear powers and the major alliance systems. to criminal conduct," Bloomberg said. In exchange for admitting he destroyed documents, Yuen had agreed to six months of home detention, a $1 million charitable donation " and a $250,000 fine. The charge against Yuen was part of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into Gemstar accounting irregularities that accused the LA.-based company of inflating its revenue by $248 million from 2000 to 2002. |
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