Posted on 01/18/2006 11:21:31 AM PST by SmithL
San Jose -- A Nevada couple who cooked up a scheme to plant a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili to extort money from the fast food chain were sentenced Wednesday to lengthy prison terms.
Anna Ayala, 40, who said she bit into the digit, was sentenced to nine years in state prison. Her husband, Jaime Plascencia, 44, who supplied the finger, was ordered locked up for more than a dozen years.
The pair pleaded guilty Sept. 9 in Santa Clara County Superior Court to two felony charges arising from the chili-finger scam: conspiracy to file a false insurance claim and attempted grand theft with damages exceeding $2.5 million.
Ayala said she retched March 22 after biting into the fingertip while dining with her family at a Wendy's in San Jose.
Although authorities suspected a hoax — in part because the finger wasn't cooked — word of the stomach-turning find quickly spread around the world. The Dublin, Ohio-based fast food chain claimed it lost $2.5 million in sales because of the bad publicity and dozens of workers at the company's Northern California franchises were laid off.
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I copy that.
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you could tell she was a phony by that first TV interview she did.
Good. Next, I want to hear what happens to the "Home Depot butt glue guy".
Although authorities suspected a hoax — in part because the finger wasn't cooked """
darn there are a lot of stupid people out there...they actually went to the trouble to GET a severed finger and didn't think through the rest?
Justice finally gets served to the deserving.
Good one...
Put a finger in a bowl of chili and get 9 years.
Rape a 6 year old girl repeatedly and get 60 days (in Vermont).
<< ... scumbags like these two .... who prey on everyone and are always looking for that large payoff .... >>
Are usually called "lawyers."
Except when they have "Democrats" for friends in which case they get to be called "politicians."
And/or, "Your Honor."
My friend who is an electrical contractor found out yesterday that he is going to be called in to work there.
Usually a female conspirator won't get as much time as a man.
Maybe he was the mastermind?
I think the ambulance-chaser who represented them should serve the time, also.
I have a question...has Dingy Harry, Democrat - Nevada, distanced himself from this couple and their actions?
I mean, they are from Nevada...Dingy HR is a senator from Nevada...guilt by association? Climate of corruption?
Good for the justice, good for the 'dingy'...
Well, at least the judge didn't thumb his nose at justice...
At least this judge gave a penalty to fit the crime not like the VT judge who gave a child rapist 2 months.
Thumbs up!!
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