Ducks owner's appeal is rejected, may face jail time.
Ducks owner Henry Samueli's latest appeal to avoid prison time was turned down Thursday in federal court.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said it could not reinstate a proposed plea bargain that called for Samueli to serve five years of probation, pay a $250,000 fine and pay $12 million to the U.S. Treasury Department, according to a Reuters report.
Samueli has been prohibited by the NHL from being involved in the Ducks' day-to-day business since he was indicted in a stock backdating scheme.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney in Santa Ana has not set a sentencing date.
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J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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