UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 15768 / June 5, 1998 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. HEIDI A. FLANNERY Civil Action No. 98-S-1233 (U.S. Dist.Ct. Colo.) The Commission today filed an insider trading case against Heidi A. Flannery, an investor relations consultant residing in Portland, Oregon. The Commission alleged that, between July and September 1996, Flannery engaged in illegal insider trading in the securities of three publicly traded corporations: ùFischer Imaging Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado, ùTriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., based in Oregon, and ùSouthern Pacific Funding Corporation, also based in Oregon. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, alleges that Flannery while privately assisting Fischer Imaging and TriQuint Semiconductor in the preparation of releases announcing lower than anticipated earnings for the third quarter of 1996, Flannery sold stock in the two companies. Flannery avoided losses in the two stocks totaling $17,731. The Commission also alleges that in July 1996 Flannery profited by $1,125 from purchasing stock in Southern Pacific Funding while preparing a release announcing increased income for the second quarter of 1996. Without admitting or denying the substantive allegations in the complaint, Flannery consented to the entry of a judgment permanently enjoining her from violating antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; ordering her to disgorge profits and losses avoided in the amount of $18,856, together with prejudgment interest of $3,389, and ordering her to pay a civil penalty of $18,856. ======END OF PAGE 1======