UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 15864 / September 1, 1998 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has filed a civil law suit against Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. ("Green Oasis"), William D. Carraway, Raymond C. O'Brien and Ronald V. Reece for using false and misleading press releases and other public statements to increase the price and volume of trading in Green Oasis shares for their personal profit in violation of the antifraud, antitouting and registration provisions of the federal securities laws. The Commission also named Mary Ann Carraway as a relief defendant to compel her to disgorge the benefits she received as the result of the defendants' scheme. The Commission's complaint alleges that Green Oasis and its president, William D. Carraway ("Carraway"), effected the scheme by publishing a series of false and misleading press releases prepared by the public relations firm the company retained, owned and controlled by Raymond C. O'Brien ("O'Brien"). Carraway paid O'Brien and others to publish purportedly objective descriptions about the company and to encourage positive discussion about the company in Internet news groups. Carraway and O'Brien used these false press releases to increase investor interest in the company. The complaint further alleges that while continuing their scheme, Carraway and O'Brien conducted an unregistered partnership offering by means of the company's Internet web site, and, together with their families, sold more than $3 million of Green Oasis stock. The complaint alleges that Carraway and O'Brien published press releases which materially misrepresented the status of Green Oasis's technology, its commercial viability as well as the existence of purchase orders for its equipment. Two press releases and other misleading documents failed to disclose material facts showing the relationships between Green Oasis and O'Brien. O'Brien as a purported financial analyst, separate from his control over Green Oasis's public relations firm, published misleading recommendations to purchase Green Oasis shares while failing to disclose that he had been paid to publicize the company. O'Brien also controlled the company that gave Green Oasis the first purchase order and deposit for its equipment but did not disclose his relationships with both Green Oasis and the customer in the press release he published touting the purported purchase order. Beginning in March, 1996 at a time when the company had no money and its prototype product lay disassembled in a field, Carraway and O'Brien began publishing false press releases in order to increase investor interest in the company and increase the price and volume of trading in the company's stock. As alleged in the complaint, in furtherance of their scheme, Carraway and O'Brien encouraged Ronald V. Reece ("Reece") to publish positive information about the company in numerous Internet news group messages he wrote and in an electronic newsletter he published about the company. In his publications, Reece claimed to be merely an interested investor and denied receiving any consideration from the company. In fact, the company gave Reece a valuable discount on his purchase of the company's securities and paid his travel expenses, all of which he failed to disclose in his publications.