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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2000

Contact: Bill Teets at (614) 644-7187
or Dennis Ginty at (614) 644-9564

 

SUMMARY OF RECENT ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS TAKEN

BY THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE’S DIVISION OF SECURITIES

 

At the request of media representatives, the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of Securities releases a summary list of Division Orders and enforcement actions recently brought by the Division’s Enforcement Section.

Before reporting information based on this INFORMATION RELEASE, the Department suggests that reporters request additional detail as to the nature of the Division Order or enforcement action.

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For more information, please contact Dennis Ginty at (614) 644-9564 or Bill Teets at (614) 644-7187.

  

**INFORMATION RELEASE**

APRIL 1 through APRIL 30, 2000

ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

 

Order No.

Name/Entity

Date

Type of Order

00-088

American Currency Exchange LLC; and Mickey B. Walker

55 Marietta Street

Suite 2000

Atlanta, GA 30303

4/4/00

Notice of Opportunity for Hearing

00-089

David Charles Baron Jr.

CRD No. 1501891

1290 Gulf Blvd.

#1802

Clearwater, FL 34630

4/5/00

Notice of Intent to Deny Application for Securities Salesman License

00-090

John Glenn Bobb

CRD No. 1368986

3321 Bear Point Circle

Powell, OH 43065

4/5/00

Notice of Intent to Deny Application for Securities Salesman License

00-091

Twin Power & Electric of San Francisco/Oakland LLP;

William Garlow;

Jeffrey Lewitt; and

Roy Cooper

2875 N.E. 191st Street

Suite 302

Aventura, FL 33180

4/5/00

Notice of Opportunity for Hearing

00-092

Foreign Currency International; Jayson Kline; and

John Reece

300 Galleria Parkway

Suite 955

Atlanta, GA 30339

4/6/00

Cease and Desist

00-093

Jose Llamado Salcedo Jr.

CRD No. 829012

6841 East Avede Santiago

Anaheim Hills, CA 92807

4/12/00

Termination of Order 00-085

00-094

Nathan Thomas Morales

CRD No. 2582607

1637 Hone Avenue

Bronx, NY 11747

4/13/00

Termination of Order 00-086
Order No.

Name/Entity

Date

Type of Order

00-096

Richard Neil Molinsky

CRD No. 114358

51 Lords Highway East

Weston, CT 06883

4/13/00

Termination of Order 00-051

00-097

Ivan Richard Gefen

CRD No. 1229418

17578 Foxnorough Lane

Boca Raton, FL 33496

4/14/00

Notice of Intent to Deny Application for Securities Salesman License

00-098

John Drummond Williams Jr.

CRD No. 2397105

21771 Fernleaf Drive

Lake Forest, CA 92630

4/17/00

Final Order Granting Salesman of Securities License

00-099

Anthony Thomas Newman

8159 Yorkshire

Mentor, OH 44060

4/17/00

Termination of Order 99-347

00-100

Anthony Allen Russo

CRD No. 2115356

24429 Gilmore Street

West Hills, CA 91307

4/17/00

Notice of Intent to Deny Application for Securities Salesman License

00-101

Venture Exploration Corporation dba Combined Resources Group; and Carpenter Completion Joint Venture

13750 San Pedro

Suite 880

San Antonio, TX 78232

4/24/00

Termination of Order 99-461

00-102

Ronald Louis Smith

CRD No. 810315

1385 King Avenue

Columbus, OH 43212

4/26/00

Final Order Denying Salesman of Securities License

00-103

James Chmielowicz

CRD No. 808392

2109 Mayport

Toledo, OH 43611

4/26/00

Cease and Desist

 

Criminal Activity

On April 12, 2000, Kevin Roser was sentenced to two years incarceration and ordered to pay restitution in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. On February 1, 2000, Roser pleaded guilty to six counts of felony securities law violations. The violations resulted from Roser's activities in connection with Ohio Business Consultants and University Businesses Incorporated. Roser had been indicted on 15 counts in April 1996. He was arraigned shortly thereafter, but then fled. Last year he was arrested in Summit County on different charges, and currently is incarcerated at the Pickaway Correctional Institution.

Anthony Thomas Newman’s criminal trial in Lake County Common Pleas Court has been continued until May 23, 2000. A Lake County grand jury indicted Anthony Thomas Newman, a Mentor, Ohio insurance agent, on January 28, 2000, on three felony counts of the sale of unregistered securities and three felony counts of selling securities while unlicensed as a securities dealer. Newman was charged with selling unregistered promissory notes to three investors totaling $230,000.000 in First Lenders Indemnity Corporation (FLIC), a company that subsequently went into bankruptcy. Two of the promissory notes sold by Newman totaled $100,000.00 each, and two of the investors were elderly. The Division had issued a Cease and Desist Order against FLIC on May 10, 1999, for selling unregistered promissory notes and failing to disclose material facts to Ohio investors.

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