==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 14863 / April 5, 1996 SEC v. WEYMAN B. SINYARD, THOMAS P. POULAKIDAS, RANDY DEPOISTER, FINANCIAL RESOURCES ADVISORY, INC. AND JARCO, INC. (N.D. Ill., Civil Action File No. 94C-5856) The Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) announced that on March 25, 1996, the Honorable John Grady of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an Order of Permanent Injunction by Default (Order) Against Defendant Jarco, Inc. (Jarco). The Order permanently enjoins Jarco from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The Order specifically asserts that the Court shall retain jurisdiction of this matter to, among other things, permit the Commission to conduct discovery to determine the specific amount of Jarco's ill-gotten gains arising from its violations, determine whether Jarco, Inc. shall be required to pay disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties and determine the liability of the remaining defendants: Weyman B. Sinyard (Sinyard), president of Jarco; Thomas G. Poulakidas (Poulakidas), former general counsel of Jarco; Randy Depoister (Depoister) and Depoister's registered investment adviser, Financial Resources Advisory, Inc. (FRA). The Court's Order was based on Jarco's failure to timely and properly file its answer to the Commission's Amended Complaint (adding Jarco as a defendant) filed with the Court on October 6, 1995. Specifically, Jarco's president, Sinyard, improperly attempted to file a pro se answer on behalf of the corporation. Thereafter, Jarco failed to make any appearance in connection with the Commission's Default Motion. The Amended Complaint alleged that between December 1987 and March 1991, Defendants Sinyard, Poulakidas, Depoister, Jarco and FRA offered and sold securities in the form of Jarco promissory notes to the public. As a result, over $1 million was raised from at least twenty-three investors residing in Illinois and Indiana. In connection therewith, Sinyard, Poulakidas, Depoister, Jarco and FRA misrepresented and omitted to state material facts regarding the investment. Specifically, investors were told that their funds would be used to help finance Jarco's costs associated with obtaining a several billion dollar loan for a trust purportedly located in Mexico (Trust). The defendants further represented that investors would quickly recoup their principal investment funds and receive returns of up to 200%. However, the loan has never closed and investors have neither recouped their investments nor received their promised returns. ==========================================START OF PAGE 2====== As a result, Jarco and the other defendants misrepresented and omitted to state material facts regarding, among other things: - 2 - the risks, returns and duration of the investment, the true nature of the investment and the use of investor funds. For further information, see Litigation Release Nos. 14259 (September 27, 1994), 14308 (October 28, 1994), 14512 (May 26, 1995) and 14603 (August 15, 1995).