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* The imprisoned founder of former Wall Street darling Centennial Technologies Inc.--which was found to have cooked its books by recording shipments of fruit baskets as PC memory cards--agreed to pay $5.3 million to settle an illegal stock trading complaint, U.S. securities regulators said. Centennial founder and former chief executive Emanuel Pinez agreed to pay the money to settle an amended illegal stock trading complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pinez is serving out a five-year sentence in federal prison on a fraud conviction that stemmed from activities at the PC memory card maker in the mid-1990s.

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