LOS ANGELES _ An Emmy Award-winning television producer has been charged with inflating the revenue and stock price of his publicly traded production company as part of a multimillion dollar stock fraud scheme.

Drew Levin, 54, the founder of Team Communications Group, Inc., was indicted by a federal grand jury on 13 counts.

They include conspiracy, falsifying his company's books and records, making false statements in annual and quarterly reports and lying to the company's auditors.

Levin, who produces mostly made-for-TV programs and documentaries, faces up to 200 years in prison if convicted of all counts.

Prosecutors say Levin has not been arrested, and is expected to make his first court appearance Friday, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Levin orchestrated a scheme to overstate Team Communications' annual and quarterly revenue to make the company appear profitable, when it was actually losing money.

As a result, they said, customers ended up paying inflated distribution fees and Levin profited from the scheme.

Levin received a $335,000 bonus based on the company's reportedly profitable 1999 performance, and he pledged more than 500,000 shares as collateral for a loan to buy a $1.5 million ranch in Big Sky, Mont., prosecutors said.

In 2001, Team Communications restated its 1999 fiscal results, going from a $1.7 million profit to a $4.25 million loss, prosecutors said. The following year, the company reported a loss of more than $42 million and later filed for bankruptcy.

Levin's credits include ``The Matthew Shepard Story'' and ``Total Recall 2070.'' © 2007 The Canadian Press