==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. Litigation Release No. 15365 / May 13, 1997 Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 914 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. GREENWAY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC., ALVIN A. MCCOLLUM, STEVEN F. BROADBENT, AND REX L. ZIMMERMAN, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 1:97CV01041 (D.D.C. May 13, 1997) (EGS). The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed suit seeking injunctive relief against Greenway Environmental Services, Inc. ("Greenway"), Greenway's Chairman Alvin A. McCollum ("McCollum"), Steven F. Broadbent ("Broadbent"), Greenway's auditor, and securities salesman Rex L. Zimmerman ("Zimmerman"). Greenway purported to be a holding company for mining interests, real estate and operating companies. The Commission's Complaint alleges that Greenway filed with the Commission, between March 1992 and December 1993, fraudulent periodic reports containing financial statements which reflected assets not owned by Greenway, or assets held by Greenway whose values were materially overstated. This conduct transformed the company in two years from a shell company with virtually no assets to a company with putative assets of nearly $50 million. The Complaint further alleges McCollum signed all but one of these fraudulent reports when he knew or was reckless in not knowing that the financial statements were false. Broadbent is alleged to have prepared many of the false financial statements and to have held himself out as Greenway's independent auditor when he lacked the required independence and failed to perform audits that met applicable professional standards. Finally, for several months in mid-1992, Zimmerman sold Greenway debentures while unregistered with the Commission as a broker or dealer. With the filing of the Complaint, Greenway consented to the entry of a Final Judgment of Permanent Injunction restraining and enjoining it from violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"). The Complaint also alleged that the Company violated the reporting, books and records, and internal controls provisions of the statute, and Greenway has also consented to be enjoined from future violations of these provisions. McCollum and Broadbent consented to the entry of injunctions barring violations of the antifraud provisions, and Zimmerman consented to the entry of an injunction against acting as an unregistered broker or dealer. Each of the defendants consented to the entry of a Final Judgment without admitting or denying the Complaint's allegations. As part of his settlement with the Commission, Broadbent also has agreed, without admitting or denying the Complaint's ==========================================START OF PAGE 2====== allegations, upon the entry of the court's injunction against him, to the institution by the Commission of an administrative proceeding and the issuance of a Commission order that denies him the privilege of practicing before the Commission as an accountant.