UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       Plaintiff,                   v. D-1 LARRY E. BENNETT,                   Defendant.

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CRIMINAL NO. 03-80660 HONORABLE NANCY G. EDMUNDS VIOLATION: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343                                             1346 OFFENSE: Wire Fraud/Theft of Honest Services FILED: JULY 10, 2003

The United States of America, acting through its attorneys, charges:

1. Larry E. Bennett is made a defendant on the charge stated below.

2. Defendant, at all times relevant, lived in Plymouth, Michigan, which is located within the Eastern District of Michigan, and was president of Premiere Video, Inc., a company located in Livonia, Michigan that duplicated and distributed videotapes.

3. Defendant and an executive ("executive") of an audio-visual company located in Troy, Michigan ("company"), which buys licensing rights from television and movie programers, then packages these properties for retail sale as videotapes and DVDs, willfully devised a scheme to commit wire fraud by depriving the company of the honest services of one of its executives and permitted the executive to obtain money by means of false or fraudulent pretenses in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 1346.

4. The executive and the defendant willfully entered into a scheme to defraud in which the defendant agreed in a series of meetings and telephone calls to pay the executive monies in exchange for his continued support in contract negotiations, and to prevent Premiere's business with the company from being jeopardized. In so doing, the defendant willfully entered into a scheme to defraud. The scheme to defraud deprived the company of the honest services of its executive and permitted the executive to obtain monies by means of false or fraudulent pretenses.

5. As part of the scheme, and for the purpose of executing the scheme to defraud, on or about January 8, 2001, defendant willfully directed the transmission over interstate wires of a $29,667 payment for the benefit of the executive. The defendant caused the wire transfer to cross from the Eastern District of Michigan, where the defendant was located, to Pennsylvania and ultimately to Arkansas for the purpose of furthering or executing the scheme to defraud, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343, 1346.

6. The scheme charged in this Information was devised and carried out, in part, in the Eastern District of Michigan, within the five years preceding the filing of this Information.