==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 15178 / December 6, 1996 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. PLEASURE TIME, INC. D\B\A TELEPHONE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ET AL. (S.D. OHIO, CIVIL ACTION NO. C-1-95-178, FILED NOVEMBER 26, 1996) The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on November 26, 1996, a Final Judgment Granting Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief By Default (Final Judgment) was entered against Pleasure Time, Inc., d/b/a Telephone Information Systems (Pleasure Time), Minette Acra Kelly, d/b/a Group Dynamics Downline (GDD), Minette Acra Kelly (Acra), and Richard A. Welch (Welch), by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Final Judgment enjoins GDD and Acra from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) and Sections 10(b), 15(a)(1) and 15(c)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) and Rules 10b-5 and 15cl-2 thereunder; and Pleasure Time and Welch are enjoined 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. Further, Pleasure Time, GDD, Acra and Welch, jointly and severally, are ordered to disgorge the sum of $663,831, which represents the ill-gotten gains that they received from investors, and pre-judgment interest thereon in the amount of $46,567. The Commission filed its complaint on March 13, 1995, seeking injunctive and other relief against Pleasure Time, GDD, Acra and Welch, entities and persons located in Florida and Ohio. The Commission's complaint alleges that the defendants participated in a fraudulent sales scheme involving unregistered securities that were offered and sold to approximately 20,000 investors raising over $3 million. Investors were recruited through a "multi-level marketing" system in which investors were encouraged to recruit other investors. Investors were recruited by telephone, facsimile delivery, and the Internet and other computer networks. They were allegedly told that they could reap enormous profits from a world wide telephone lottery. The lottery program was purportedly going to employ a 900 number to attract players with projected receipts of $300 million. According to the complaint, defendants understated and failed to disclose legal, regulatory and technical obstacles to starting a lottery. The complaint further alleges, among other things, that defendants variously violated the antifraud and registration provisions of the federal securities laws. For further information, see Lit. Release No. 14440, March 15, 1995.