-------------------- BEGINNING OF PAGE #1 ------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 14695 / October 19, 1995 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. SHREVEPORT WIRELESS CABLE TELEVISION PARTNERSHIP, ET AL., Civil Action No. 94-1781 (HHG)(D.D.C. August 16, 1994). The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") today announced that on October 12, 1995, the Honorable Harold H. Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a final judgment against one of the eight defendants named in the action, pursuant to its consent. The settling defendant is Shreveport Wireless Cable Television Partnership ("Shreveport Partnership"). The action continues against the remaining seven defendants: Complete Communications Corporation ("Complete"), Joseph S. Steingold ("Steingold"), Stuart Weingarden ("Weingarden"), Champion Communications Corporation ("Champion"), B.R. Cable Corporation ("B.R. Cable"), Samuel Abrams ("Abrams"), and Wireless Cable Television of Shreveport Limited Liability Company ("Shreveport LLC"). Shreveport Partnership is located in North Palm Beach, Florida. In its Amended Complaint filed on January 13, 1995, the Commission alleged that all eight defendants had violated Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") by offering and selling unregistered securities. In addition, the Commission alleged that five of the defendants, including Shreveport Partnership, each violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, by making untrue statements of material facts and by omitting to state material facts in connection with the offer and sale of unregistered securities. The Commission specifically alleged in its Amended Complaint that defendant Shreveport Partnership, with some of the other defendants, had been engaged in a scheme to offer and sell unregistered securities of Shreveport Partnership to investors throughout the United States. Shreveport Partnership purports to be a general partnership established under the laws of Nevada to acquire, own, operate and manage a wireless cable television system in the Shreveport, Louisiana area. The Amended Complaint also alleged that defendants Steingold, Shreveport Partnership, Complete, Abrams, and Shreveport LLC had attempted to raise over $12.5 million through the nationwide sale of 840 Shreveport Partnership units and did raise approximately $11.3 million from such sales. In the offer and sale of the unregistered securities of Shreveport Partnership, defendants Steingold, Shreveport Partnership, and Complete were alleged to have made material misrepresentations and omitted to state material facts necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, concerning, among other things, the returns on an investment in the units, the value of the wireless cable television system, and risks associated with an investment in the units. On August 19, 1994, the Court ordered Shreveport Partnership and Complete to suspend any further sales of units in Shreveport Partnership pending the Court's determination of the Commission's request for a preliminary injunction. Subsequently, on September -------------------- BEGINNING OF PAGE #2 ------------------- 7, 1994, the Court approved a stipulated order ordering Shreveport Partnership and Complete to cease and desist from, directly or indirectly, offering or selling units in Shreveport Partnership. The final judgment entered against Shreveport Partnership contains all of the permanent injunctive relief requested in the complaint. Specifically, Shreveport Partnership is enjoined permanently from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act, and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The prior releases dealing with this matter are Litigation Release Nos. 14195 (August 17, 1994) and 14383 (January 18, 1995).