==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Release No. 37757 / September 30, 1996 Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-9125 ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED AGAINST WAYNE J. CONNERS; ADMINISTRATIVE AND CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED AGAINST THOMAS A. PIECHOWICZ, JAMES M. FLYNN, AND CHRISTOPHER CONWAY; CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED AGAINST SHARON BARTOCK AND WINFRED KIPP. The Securities and Exchange Commission has instituted administrative proceedings against Wayne J. Conners ("Conners") pursuant to Sections 15(b) and 19(h) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"); and administrative and cease-and- desist proceedings against Thomas A. Piechowicz ("Piechowicz"), James M. Flynn ("Flynn"), and Christopher Conway ("Conway") pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), and Sections 15(b), 19(h) and 21C of the Exchange Act; and cease-and-desist proceedings against Sharon Bartock ("Bartock") and Winfred Kipp ("Kipp) pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Section 21C of the Exchange Act. The Commission's Order alleges that, in violation of Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act, Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, Conners, Piechowicz, Flynn, Bartock and Kipp sold more than $3.5 million in unregistered securities of C'est Lestial Waters, Inc. ("CWI") and related entities. These sales were made in connection with the fraudulent offering by CWI and its related entities of certain stocks and bonds. Specifically, the Order alleges that, from May 1993 through January 1995, CWI raised over $7 million from more than 100 investors through the offering and sale of unregistered collateral trust bonds, as well as the securities of certain entities related to CWI. In connection with that offering, CWI and certain of its principals and agents violated the securities registration, antifraud and broker-dealer registration provisions of the federal securities laws, through, among other things, their misrepresentations and omissions concerning the security underlying the referenced bonds and their relative safety; their status as exempt from registration with the Commission; and the use of offering proceeds. See SEC v. C'est Lestial Waters, Inc., et al., Civ. No. 95-642 (W.D. PA.) (April 27, 1995) (L.R. No. 14484, May 2, 1995). The Order alleges that Conners, Piechowicz, Bartock and Kipp sold the securities of CWI and its related entities through misrepresentations and omissions of facts to investors, including through the misrepresentation that each investment was fully ==========================================START OF PAGE 2====== secured by a first lien on specific assets of CWI and its related entities. The Order further alleges that Flynn made the foregoing misrepresentations and omissions while acting as an unregistered broker-dealer, in violation of Sections 15(a) and 15(c) of the Exchange Act. Finally, the Order alleges that Conway aided and abetted and caused the violative conduct engaged in by CWI, Conners, Piechowicz, Flynn, Bartock and others by, among other things, creating for distribution to investors false income projections and account statements; reviewing and permitting the continued distribution of false and misleading prospectuses to investors; and processing paperwork related to the fraudulent CWI offering.