SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 15434 / August 6, 1997 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. MICHAEL SNOWHITE, BLS CONSULTING, CHARLES BORATGIS, PAUL LAND, JEFFREY STERN, SHELLEY OLANDER, MORREY WASSERMAN, 900 FINANCIAL SERVICES, L.L.C., DAVID KANE, AND SAM SARCINELLI D/B/A/ S&S CONSULTING Civil Action No. C-97-2888 (VRW) The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") today announced the filing of a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Michael Snowhite, BLS Consulting, Charles Boratgis, Paul Land, Shelley Olander, Morrey Wasserman, 900 Financial Services, L.L.C., David Kane, and Sam Sarcinelli d/b/a S&S Consultants, alleging that the defendants violated certain of the antifraud, securities registration, and broker-dealer registration provisions of the federal securities laws in connection with the sale of general partnership units in a 900 telephone line venture. The Complaint alleges that certain of the defendants made material misrepresentations in the offering materials and in telephone solicitations, that prospective investors could receive between a 24 percent return, for a four month period, to a 203 percent return, for a sixteen month period, on their investment in Telefund, and that these and other projections of extraordinarily high returns to investors were without basis in fact. Ultimately, Telefund received a total of $1,180,000 from investors, most of which was used to pay sales commissions and other initial start up costs, according to the Complaint. In the Complaint, the Commission seeks a permanent injunction against defendants Snowhite, BLS, Boratgis, Land, Olander, Wasserman, 900 Financial, Kane, and Sarcinelli for violations of the foregoing provisions of the federal securities laws in connection with the offer and sale to the public of unregistered securities of Telefund. Named as a relief defendant in the Commission's suit is Jeffrey Stern, BLS partner. The Complaint also seeks disgorgement of investor funds. According to the Complaint, beginning in or about November 1994, the defendants began to offer and sell to the public securities designated as "general partnership units" in Telefund, a partnership formed by defendant Snowhite and his partner, Gregory L. Miller. Defendant Snowhite's partner allegedly contracted with Independent Sales Organizations such as Boratgis', Land's and Stern's partnership BLS, 900 Financial, and Sarcinelli d/b/a S&S Consulting to solicit prospective investors to purchase Telefund securities. These Independent Sales Organizations, in turn, hired salespeople, including, among others, Olander and Wasserman, to solicit investors. - 2 - ======END OF PAGE 1====== Simultaneously with the filing of the Complaint, and without admitting or denying the allegations made against them, Snowhite, Olander, Wasserman, 900 Financial, and Kane consented to the entry of a Final Judgment of Permanent Injunction and Other Relief permanently enjoining them from future violations of Sections 5 and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. These defendants also agreed to pay disgorgement of amounts obtained through the conduct alleged in the Complaint, subject to waiver based upon their sworn Statements of Financial Condition and contingent upon the accuracy and completeness of those statements. Sarcinelli, also simultaneously with the filing of the Complaint, and without admitting or denying the allegations made against him, consented to the entry of a Final Judgment of Permanent Injunction and Other Relief permanently enjoining him from future violations of Sections 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In addition, Sarcinelli consented to the entry of a Final Judgment which would order him to disgorge $10,000.00. On January 23, 1996, the Commission filed a complaint in the matter of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Gregory L. Miller, et al, C-96-0336 (MHP), in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Final Judgments were entered against each of the defendants on February 1, 1996, enjoining them from further violations of Sections 5 and 17(a) of the Securities Act and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Exchange Act, and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and ordering disgorgement in the amount of $269,435. ======END OF PAGE 2======