UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 15548 / October 31, 1997 ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING ENFORCEMENT RELEASE NO. 981 / October 31, 1997 SEC v. Bond D. Fletcher and Mediajet, Inc., Civil Action No. 97CV12443(PBS) (D. Massachusetts, filed October 30, 1997). The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today the filing of a Complaint against Bond Dellapp Fletcher ("Fletcher"), the owner and president of Mediajet, Inc. ("Mediajet"), for aiding and abetting the financial fraud conducted by Emanuel Pinez ("Pinez") and Centennial Technologies, Inc. ("Centennial"). Mediajet, a manufacturer of font cartridges for laser printers and located in Beverly, Massachusetts, is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The Complaint alleges that, from January 1996 through January 1997, Fletcher caused Mediajet to create false records and engage in several acts calculated to enable Centennial to include more than $3 million in phony revenue in its reported financial results. According to the Complaint, Fletcher engaged in this fraudulent conduct at the request of Pinez, the former CEO of Centennial. In return for the participation of Fletcher and Mediajet in Centennial's fraud, Pinez gave Fletcher at least 260,000 shares of Centennial common stock. Fletcher subsequently sold those shares for $6,834,184. The Complaint also alleges that Pinez made loans to Fletcher and Mediajet totaling $190,000. According to the Complaint, Centennial and Pinez engaged in a fraudulent scheme to defraud investors in Centennial stock by falsely overstating the company's revenues and profits. Defendants Fletcher and Mediajet aided and abetted Centennial's scheme by, among other things, fabricating fictitious purchase orders, signing backdated sales orders falsely acknowledging receipt of products from Centennial, accepting shipment of mock and/or obsolete computer equipment, and using Centennial's funds to purchase treasurers checks, payable to Centennial, on behalf of purported Centennial customers. For example, in January 1997, Fletcher, at Pinez's request, signed and backdated fictitious Centennial sales orders totaling $1,250,000. Fletcher, according to the Complaint, was acknowledging receipt of Centennial products for Mediajet and two other Centennial customers, when, in fact, the only "goods" shipped were holiday fruit baskets. The Complaint alleges that Fletcher and Mediajet aided and abetted Centennial's violations of several antifraud and reporting provisions of the securities laws. Specifically, the defendants are charged with violating Sections 10(b), 13(a), and 13(b)(2)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Exchange Act Rules 10b-5, 13a-1, 13a-13, 13b2-1, and 12b-20 as aiders and abettors pursuant to Section 20(f) of the Exchange Act. The Complaint, filed in the United States District - 2 - Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeks a permanent injunction against further violations of those provisions by Fletcher and Mediajet. ======END OF PAGE 1====== The Complaint also seeks disgorgement ofthe defendants' ill-gotten gains and a civil penalty against Mediajet. ======END OF PAGE 2======