Phony weight loss company
ordered to pay restitution
1 SALEM — The Oregon attor
ney general’s office is accus
ing a New Jersey hypnosis service
of making misleading claims by
its weight loss seminars.
Hardy Myers’ office on Tues
day ordered the New Jersey com
pany A. Goen Seminars Institute
and its chief executive officer,
Alex Goen, to comply with Ore
gon’s Unlawful Trade Practices
Act.
The company claimed that the
“Goen Method” would enable
people to lose “20-60 pounds in
three months, up to 120 pounds
in one year” and that Goen’s hyp
nosis would make one-time group
seminar attendees feel “full twice
as fast on half the food.”
It also claimed the seminar
would “destroy attendees’ crav
ings for fattening junk foods.”
Consumer protectors said no
evidence supports those claims.
Under the terms of Tuesday’s
assurance, Goen must give full re
funds to hypnosis patients if they
are requested within 90 days of
the seminar. Goen also must pay
$5,000 to the Department of Jus
tice consumer education account.
Schwarzenegger ends
Planet Hollywood contract
2 ORLANDO, Fla. — Arnold
Schwarzenegger said Tuesday
he is ending his contract with
Planet Hollywood International.
As an investor, the actor was
the public face of the troubled
restaurant chain, along with fel
low box-office heavyweights
Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and
Sylvester Stallone.
The actor said he has sold his
interest in the company.
“It was lots of fun and very
challenging to come up with and
develop the celebrity restaurant
concept on an international lev
el,” he said in a statement. “Of
course, I am disappointed that the
company did not continue with
the success I had expected and
hoped for.”
The company last week
emerged from federal bankruptcy
court. The company closed nine
poorly performing restaurants
just before entering bankruptcy
three months ago.
CEO Robert Earl said last week
he plans to announce a new set of
celebrity investors who will ap
peal to the youth market.
Man convicted of murder
captured on film
3 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —
A man who fatally shot his ex
wife while a TV camera rolled
was found guilty of murder.
A jury took just more than an
hour Tuesday to convict Emilio
Nunez, 40, in the slaying of Mar
itza Martin.
Broward Circuit Judge Daniel
Andrews sentenced Nunez to life
in prison with a minimum of 25
years before he can be considered
for parole. Nunez was given credit
for the seven years he has already
served while awaiting trial.
A reporter for the Spanish-lan
guage network Telemundo was
interviewing Nunez in 1993 at the
grave of his 15-year-old daughter,
who had killed herself. Nunez’s
ex-wife arrived unexpectedly,
and he accused her of causing
their daughter’s suicide by slap
ping the girl because she was
pregnant.
Nunez then pulled a gun, shot
Ms. Martin in the head and fired
11 more times as she lay on the
ground.
The reporter, Ingrid Cruz, and
her cameraman ran for cover, but
not before filming much of the
shooting. The tape was shown in
court.
Defense attorney Reemberto
Diaz told the jury that Nunez was
angered by the reporter’s ques
tions. The attorney said Cruz had
asked questions designed to get
an emotional response.
Telemundo spokesman Ted
Guefen countered last week: “It is
irresponsible to suggest that Tele
mundo or Ingrid Cruz are in any
way responsible for this terrible
tragedy.”
Peru’s top drug trafficker
caught, president says
4 LIMA, Peru — President Al
berto Fujimori said Tuesday
that police had captured the chief
of Peru’s top drug cartel in the
Amazon jungle.
Adolfo Cachique was arrested
early Tuesday in the central jun
gle province of Contamana along
the banks of the Ucayali River,
355 miles northeast of Lima.
Fujimori described Cachique
and his brothers as leading “the
most important narcotics gang op
erating in Peru” and said the al
leged drug boss was a major sup
plier of cocaine to the United
States.
Norwegian teen faces
charges in DVD security case
5 OSLO, Norway — A 16-year
old boy and his father on
Tuesday faced charges and a bat
tle with the U.S. film industry af
ter the boy helped develop a com
puter program for cracking DVD
video security codes, then distrib
uted it.
Jon Johansen and his father,
Per, were ch&ged with copyright
violations after police seized com
puters from their home and inter
rogated the boy into the early
hours of Tuesday morning. Nor
wegian news reports said they
were the first in the world to face
criminal charges in such a DVD
case.
“The charges concern whether
Johansen developed a cracker
program that breaks the [DVD]
copying code and distributed it
on the Internet through his fa
ther’s home page,” Inger Marie
Sunde of the Norwegian police’s
economic crime unit said.
Johansen said he and friends
made a program to crack the code
on the discs so they could be
copied to computers for viewing.
He denied breaking any laws.
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