==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. Litigation Release No. 14840 / March 12, 1996 Securities and Exchange Commission v. American Interactive Group, LLC et al. (Civ. No. 95-1569 (GEB)) (USDC/DNJ) On March 5, 1996, Judge Garret Brown of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a final judgment against defendants American Interactive Group, LLC, American Interactive Services, LLC, American Interactive, LLC, David C. Connolly, Daniel Rivera, Sr., and Marc A. Remoli (collectively "defendants"), and relief defendant American Seminars, Inc. ("relief defendant") in the above-captioned matter. Defendants were permanently enjoined and restrained from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder. The final judgment further orders that defendants and relief defendant disgorge all moneys derived from the actions alleged in the Complaint. Based upon defendants' and relief defendant's sworn representations to the Commission as to their financial condition, payment of all but the following disgorgement amounts were waived: American Interactive Group, LLC was ordered to disgorge $235,688; American Seminars, Inc. was ordered to disgorge $11,922; and David C. Connolly was ordered to disgorge $2,692. It was further ordered that, until the investors solicited by defendants are paid back in full the amount they invested plus prejudgment interest, defendants and relief defendant shall relinquish any money, interest, or assets that they may derive from or obtain from the three Interactive Video and Data Services ("IVDS") licenses that were the basis of the investments at issue. Those licenses are currently owned by Daniel Rivera and issued by the Federal Communications Commission for the areas of Worcester, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Mobile, Alabama. The Commission's complaint, which was filed April 7, 1995, alleged that defendants raised over $900,000 from about 100 investors from the period October 1994 to April 1995. Investors were solicited nationwide, the complaint alleged, by a sales force working from two boiler rooms controlled by Connolly, Rivera, and Remoli, to purchase securities in the form of "membership units" in American Interactive Group, LLC. The ostensible plan behind the offerings was to raise money to purchase IVDS licenses to be auctioned at future FCC auctions, and to purchase a 10% interest in American Interactive, LLC, which defendants claimed owned the three IVDS licenses owned by Rivera. The complaint further alleged that defendants knowingly made materially false and misleading representations and omissions to investors, including: unreasonable projections of extraordinary profits; failing to disclose that close to 60% of offering proceeds would be used to pay the defendants and to pay the expenses of the sales efforts; failing to tell investors that Connolly had prior civil and criminal law violations; and failing to tell investors that the interests they were offering in the three IVDS licenses had effectively been marked up by more than 3700%. ==========================================START OF PAGE 2======