UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

           LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 16054 /  February 4, 1999

           SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. LENNOX INVESTMENT GROUP, LTD.,
           ACTIVE INTERNATIONAL, INC., RANDALL W. LAW, JAMES F. WARDELL, MONICA M.
           ILES, FRANK L. PEITZ, AND DANIEL B. BENSON, 4:98CV536-Y, USDC, ND/TX
           (Fort Worth Division)

                On January 29, 1999, Judge Terry R. Means, United States District
           Judge for the Northern District of  Texas, entered an order granting
           the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ("Commission") motion for
           default judgment against defendants Daniel B. Benson ("Benson") and
           Active International, Inc. ("Active"), and relief defendants Benson
           Financial, Inc. ("BFI"), P.B.F. Capital Group, Inc. ("PBF"), and
           I.B.I., Inc. ("IBI").  The Court ordered Benson and Active, and relief
           defendants BFI, PBF and IBI,  to pay disgorgement in amounts
           representing money or the value of property received from funds
           collected from investors as a result of the defendants’ violations of
           the federal securities laws.  Specifically, Benson, Active, and relief
           defendants BFI, PBF and IBI, were ordered to disgorge the following
           amounts: (1) Benson and Active,  jointly and severally  - $11,109,000,
           plus prejudgment interest of $2,500,000; (2)  BFI - $2,053,586, plus
           prejudgment interest of $445,099; (3) PBF - $3,949,273, plus
           prejudgment interest of $839,519; and (4) IBI - $335,000, plus
           prejudgment interest of $18,196.  The Commission has submitted an
           application to the Court proposing civil penalties of $100,000 against
           Benson and $500,000 against Active.

                The Commission’s complaint charged Benson and Active, and other
           defendants, with raising approximately $11.1 million from more than 50
           investors in at least 10 states through the fraudulent offer and sale
           of unregistered "prime bank" securities. Investors were told that their
           funds would be placed in an escrow account, with the investment
           principal guaranteed, and that their funds would be invested in a
           trading program where investors could expect a yield of 122.5% per week
           for 40 weeks during the 54 week term of the program. In fact, according
           to the complaint,  the trading program did not exist and the
           defendants, instead of investing the funds, stole the entire $11.1
           million of investors’ funds which were disbursed for the benefit of
           themselves and their designees, including the relief defendants.

                The Court’s latest order followed a November 24, 1998 order in
           which the Court entered permanent injunctions by default against Benson
           and Active, enjoining them from further violations of the antifraud
           provisions of the federal securities laws found in 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.