The gift cards, which look like credit cards without the embossed numerals, can usually be ordered in any amount for almost any occasion.
He said he stood at the base of the trade center on Sept. 11, waiting to be ordered in, and then spent almost a year searching for "my buddies" on the pile at ground zero.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Peyraudeau has a way with comfort-food desserts like chocolate soufflé (it does not need to be ordered hours in advance) and a rich, eggy, almost cheeselike clafoutis with fresh berries.
At sentencing in October 2013, he was ordered to pay almost $400,000 a record fine in Canada for wildlife smuggling but he did not go to jail.
In March, the owner of seven McDonald's restaurants in New York was ordered to pay almost $500,000 to more than 1,000 employees who performed work off the clock and had other pay illegally withheld.
Mr. Servier has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 in bail, while the companies have each been ordered to pay about $520,000.
One minor embarrassment came recently with the news that his publican brother was a tax defaulter who had been ordered to pay almost €100,000 (£78,000) in taxes and fines.
The Walt Disney Company on Wednesday was ordered to pay almost $270 million in damages to Celador, the British production company that created the hit game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" more than a decade ago.
A man has been ordered to pay almost £500 in fines and costs for dropping a snack lid on the ground in Bristol.
