SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
v.
KENNETH ROY WEARE,
a/k/a ROY WEAVER,
J&K GLOBAL MARKETING CORPORATION, and
AAA-AUCTION.COM, INC.,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT
Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) alleges
the following
facts in support of its complaint:
1. The defendants Kenneth Roy Weare, also known as Roy Weaver,
and J&K
Global Marketing Corporation are engaged in a fraudulent scheme
to offer and
sell unregistered securities in the form of $375 memberships
in J&K's
"Rent/Mortgage Free Program" to investors throughout the United
States and
other countries. The defendants are selling and have sold the
securities
through Internet websites, including www.offshoremlm.net and
www.offshoreprfits.nu. and e-mail messages that contain materially
false and
misleading statements and which omit to state material facts
concerning,
among other things, where investors' funds are invested, the
rate of return,
and the source of funds used to pay promised earnings from the
investments.
The defendants offer monetary incentives to induce investors
to use J&K's
fraudulent promotional documents to solicit new investors. The
proceeds from
the investments are "pooled" into several bank accounts and purportedly
invested by Weare and J&K in a high yield program that is
represented to pay
investors 600 percent return annually. In fact, Weare and J&K
have since at
least November 1999 operated a Ponzi scheme using later investors'
funds to
pay referral fees and purported earnings to earlier investors.
Rather than
investing the funds, Weare has used investors' funds to pay various
J&K
operating expenses and his personal expenses. Weare and J&K
have raised
approximately $6,437,310 from investors since November 1999.
2. The defendants Kenneth Roy Weare and AAA-Auction.com Inc. also
engaged
in a fraudulent scheme to offer and sell securities in the form
of merchandise
"Purchase-Resale Agreements" to investors in the United States
to raise funds
to operate a live auction on the company's Internet website
www.aaa-auction.com. The defendants sold the securities through
telemarketers by means of offering documents prepared by Weare,
which
contain materially false and misleading statements and which
omit to state
material facts concerning, among other things, the nature of,
safety of,
potential earnings or commissions paid from the investments.
Weare and
AAA-Auction "pooled" investors' funds into at least one bank
account and
represented that they used the funds to purchase merchandise
for sale on the
Internet auction, the profits which were to pay investors earnings
ranging from
50 to 80 percent per year. However, Weare and AAA-Auction in
fact used 30 to
40 percent of the funds to pay sales commissions, and additional
funds to pay
business expenses including the purchase of computer equipment,
and for
Weare's personal expenses, including child support payments.
Weare and
AAA-Auction also failed to disclose to investors Weare's prior
convictions of
charitable fraud for misappropriating funds raised for a charity.
3. Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction, directly or indirectly, have
engaged, are
engaged and are about to engage in transactions, acts, practices
and courses
of business which constitute violations of Section 17(a) of the
Securities Act of
1933 (Securities Act) [15 U.S.C. §§ 77e(a), 77e(c)
and 77q(a)], and Section
10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) [15
U.S.C. § 78j(b)]
and Rule 10b-5 [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5]. Weare and J&K,
directly or indirectly,
have engaged, are engaged and are about to engage in transactions,
acts,
practices and courses of business which constitute violations
of Sections 5(a),
and 5(c) of the Securities Act.
4. Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction will, unless restrained and
enjoined, continue to
engage in the acts, practices, and courses of business alleged
herein, and in
acts, practices and courses of business of similar object and
purpose.
5. The Commission brings this action pursuant to the authority
conferred upon it
by Section 20(a) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77t]
and Section 21(d) of the
Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d)] to restrain and
enjoin the defendants, and
each of them, from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of
the Securities Act
[15 U.S.C. §§ 77e(a), 77e(c), and 77q(a)], Section
10(b) of the Exchange Act [15
U.S.C. § 78j(b)] and Rule 10b-5 [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b5],
and granting other
equitable relief.
6. The defendants, and each of them, committed the violations
described above
by means of conduct which involved fraud and deceit and which
created a
significant risk of substantial losses to other persons.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
7. This Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to Section
22(a) of the
Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77v] and Sections 21(e) and
27 of the Exchange Act
[15 U.S.C. §§78u(e) and 78aa ].
8. Venue properly lies in this Court pursuant to Section 22(a)
of the Securities
Act [15 U.S.C. § 77v(a)], and Section 27 of the Exchange
Act [15 U.S.C. § 78aa
].
9. The defendants, and each of them, directly and indirectly,
have made use of
the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or of
the mails in
connection with the acts, practices and courses of business alleged
in this
Complaint.
THE DEFENDANTS
10. Defendant Kenneth Roy Weare, age 54, is a resident of Lakewood,
Colorado. He is also known as Roy Weaver. From approximately
June 1999 to
date, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, was the president of
J&K. From
approximately March 1998 to date, Weare was the Chief Executive
Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Directors of AAA-Auction.
11. Defendant J&K Global Marketing Corporation is a Colorado
corporation that
operates from offices in Lakewood, Colorado. J&K Global Marketing
Corporation
is also registered as an International Business Corporation in
Belize.
12. Defendant AAA-Auction.com, Inc. was formed by Weare to operate
an
Internet auction site at www.aaa-auction.com. AAA-Auction operated
from
offices in Aurora and Denver, Colorado. On or about September
1, 2000, the
State of Colorado dissolved AAA-Auction.com, Inc. for failing
to file an annual
report. However, Weare continues to maintain a checking account
for
AAA-Auction.com containing investors' funds.
J&K FRAUDULENT SCHEME
13. Beginning in November 1999 and continuing to date, defendants
J&K and
Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, knowingly or recklessly engaged
in a
fraudulent scheme to offer and sell $375 memberships in a "Rent/Mortgage
Free" program (Rent Free Program) that was purportedly invested
in high yield
programs from which the defendants allegedly paid the investors
600 percent
return per year.
14. J&K and Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, knowingly or
recklessly
posted false and misleading information about the Rent Free Program
on
offshoremlm.net and offshoreprofits.nu. Internet websites registered
to Weare,
and through e-mail messages sent to members. The websites originated
from a
computer located in Lakewood, Colorado. Investors located in
the United States
and other countries accessed the Internet websites or e-mail
15. On the website and through e-mail messages, J&K and Weare
represented
that investors may join the Rent Free Program by paying a yearly
membership
fee of $375. Weare and J&K pooled investors' membership fees
and allegedly
invested members' funds in a "high yield program offshore." Weare
and J&K
promised that six months after joining the Rent Free Program,
each member
would be paid $375 per month or a return of 600 percent annually.
16. Investors became members of the Rent Free Program by completing
an
application on the J&K website, and e-mailing it to J&K's
office in Colorado or
faxing it to a telephone number in Ontario, Canada. Weare and
J&K confirmed
each person's membership by a return e-mail message that assigned
an
identification number to the transaction and instructed the member
to mail or
wire transfer $375 to a particular address or bank account.
17. In order to induce investors to solicit additional investors,
Weare and J&K
represented on the website and in e-mails that members would
be paid $50 for
each new member referred to J&K by the "sponsoring" member.
Any member
referring three additional investors would become a "Qualified
Member" which
entitled them to receive monthly payments of $1,500 rather than
$375.
According to the defendants' representations, members referring
more than
three other members would receive an additional $100 of earnings
per month
for each additional referral.
18. To further induce members to make referrals or purchase additional
memberships, Weare and J&K announced in April 2000 that memberships
would
be closed after 50,000 members joined the program. Weare and
J&K sent an
e-mail in or about May 2000 to members announcing a drawing in
the following
month to give away a new Chevy Suburban or $25,000 to existing
members.
Weare and J&K announced the winner on the website on July
6, 2000. On July
7, 2000, the defendants announced a second drawing to be held
on December
1, 2000 which was to pay $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000 to the first,
second and
third place winners respectively.
19. Beginning in or about April 2000, Weare, using the name Roy
Weaver,
announced in e-mails and subsequent updates on the website that
J&K would
accept no new members after reaching 50,000. Weare stated that
after
reaching 50,000 members, J&K would delete members who had
not paid the
$375 fee, and then re-open the program to new members for one
month.
20. On September 26, 2000 in an update on the website, Weare,
using the
name Roy Weaver, stated that at least 50,547 investors had become
members
of the Free Rent Program. Although the program was supposedly
closed,
additional members were admitted to the program on or about October
2, and
10, 2000, and investors continued to deposit funds into the defendants'
bank
account through November 2000.
21. Although Weare represented that over 50,000 members had joined
J&K,
bank records from three accounts into which investors funds were
deposited
show the defendants have collected approximately S6,437,310.94,
which is
substantially less than the membership fees from 50,000 members.
22. On March 23, 2001, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, announced
that
J&K had opened a new temporary website address at 207.42.135.131,
which
can only be accessed by paid members. He also stated that J&K
was holding
membership fees received after the date of closure of the program.
A website
posting by a J&K member on April 3,2001 states the program
is on hold for
three weeks.
MATERIALLY FALSE AND MISLEADING PROMOTIONAL DOCUMENTS USED BY
THE
DEFENDANTS IN THE FRAUDULENT SCHEME
23. From November 1999 to date, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver,
and J&K
have represented on the J&K websites that members' funds
are invested in a
high yield program and that the defendants have been in the trading
business
for over 12 years. In e-mails to members, Weare and J&K represent
that they
invest the members' funds almost immediately and that members
receive
annual returns of 600 percent.
24. Weare and J&K's statements about investment of members'
funds in high
yield programs and the rate of return earned are materially false
and
misleading. In fact, the defendants did not invest membership
fees in high yield
programs; instead Weare and J&K used a portion of the funds
collected from
later investors to pay referral fees and purported earnings to
early investors,
and used the balance of the funds to pay J&K's business expenses
and Weare's
personal expenses, including purchases of clothing, limousine
services, and
medical services.
25. Beginning in February 2000, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver,
and J&K
represented on the J&K website and in e-mails sent to members
that J&K was
forming an offshore bank in Grenada under the name LeGrande Internationale
Bank, Ltd. The defendants represented that members would receive
a
numbered account to receive payouts from J&K, ATM and debit
cards,
certificates of deposit at higher rates than available at U.S.
banks, and the
opportunity to purchase stock in the offshore bank. Weare and
J&K represented
that over $300 million had been committed to the bank in the
first month of
opening, the bank was leasing office space in Grenada and would
open about
November 5, 2000.
26. The defendants' statements about opening the bank were materially
false
and misleading, because they never applied for, or were granted
a license to
operate a bank in Grenada. Defendants did not disclose that members'
funds
were used to purchase software and computer programming to operate
the
bank.
27. In or about May 2000, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, and
J&K
induced members to join the Rent Free Program by announcing a
drawing to
award either $25,000 or a Chevy Suburban to a member in July
2000.
Defendants failed to disclose a material fact that the funds
to pay this award
were paid out of investors' initial deposits.
28. In May 2000, Weare, using the name Roy Weaver, and J&K
represented in
an email to investors that they had "secured an investment opportunity
that
will mature in the next 18 months that will literally earn J&K
Billions of dollars
yearly." On July 1, 2000, Weare and J&K represented on the
J&K website that
they had made investments in April and May that would pay returns
in
September and October, 2000 of 1,200 percent monthly and other
investments
that would pay 200 percent to 600 percent monthly. These statements
and
similar statements about J&K's investments were materially
false and
misleading, because Weare and J&K did not withdraw funds
from J&K's bank
accounts in April and May 2000, or on other reported dates, with
which to make
such investments. Additionally, Weare and J&K did not deposit
earnings of
1,200 percent monthly into the bank accounts commencing in September
and
October 2000, or make deposits of earnings from other investments.
29. Weare and J&K represented that J&K did not maintain
offices in the United
States. This statement was materially false and misleading because
the
defendants operated their business from computers located in
Colorado.
30. Weare and J&K failed to disclose to investors the material
fact that Weare
has been convicted of two counts of charitable fraud.
AAA-Auction.com FRAUDULENT SCHEME
31. In l997, Weare organized AAA.Auction.com Inc., which was incorporated
in
Colorado in March 1998. AAA-Auction operated a website located
at
www.aaa-auction.com which allowed individuals to purchase merchandise
through a live auction over the Internet.
32. From inception, Weare was the Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the
Board of Directors of AAA.Auction.com.
33. From at least October 1997 through May 1999, Weare and AAA-Auction
offered and sold merchandise "Purchase-Resale Agreements," which
are notes
or investment contracts within the definition of securities in
Section 2(1) of the
Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77b(l)].
34. AAA-Auction financed its operations through the sale of the
Purchase Resale
agreements to at least seventeen investors who invested at least
$415,000.
35. At Weare's instruction, Steven A. Costin, AAA-Auction's Vice
President of
Marketing and Sales, formed Cosco Capital, Inc. (Cosco) to offer
and sell the
Purchase-Resale Agreements to potential investors. In late spring
1998, Weare
and AAA-Auction also hired Paul Dickau and Global International
Marketing, Inc.
(Global International), a California telemarketer, to offer and
sell the
Purchase-Resale Agreements to investors. Costin, Dickau and others
offered
and sold the Purchase Resale Agreements to investors by telephone
solicitations.
36. AAA-Auction and Weare agreed to pay Cosco thirty percent of
all money it
raised through the end of January 1998. AAA-Auction and Weare
also agreed to
pay Global International forty percent of all money it raised.
AAA-Auction and
Weare paid Cosco between $50,000.00 and $80,000.00 in commissions,
and
paid Global International at least $115,400.00 in commissions.
37. Weare prepared the offering materials used by Cosco and Global
International to sell the Purchase-Resale Agreements to investors.
38. Cosco and Global International provided potential investors
with the
offering materials written by Weare, which described AAA-Auction's
inventory
finance program. To join AAA-Auction's program, investors were
required to sign
a written "Merchandise Purchase Resale Agreement" provided with
the offering
materials and to invest a minimum of $10,000 to purchase a "truckload"
of
merchandise which would be sold on AAA-Auction's live Internet
auction.
39. In return, AAA-Auction agreed to pay investors, on a quarterly
basis, a fixed
percentage of the principal amount of their investment, to be
paid out of profits
from the resale of the merchandise during live auctions on the
Internet. The
percentage return promised to investors ranged from fifty percent
per annum to
eighty percent per annum depending on the principal amount of
their
investment. AAA-Auction also promised to repay each investor's
principal after
one year.
40. In addition, the offering materials stated that each investor's
interest in the
program was safe because it was collateralized by a "warehouse
full of
inventory" and by "all the merchandise in [AAA-Auction's] warehouse."
AAA-Auction also promised to provide each investor with a "master
inventory
listing" describing this collateral.
MATERIALLY FALSE AND MISLEADING AAA-AUCTION OFFERING MATERIALS
USED
IN THE FRAUDULENT SCHEME
41. From in or about October 1997 through July 1999, AAA-Auction
and Weare,
through telemarketers at Cosco and Global International, and
in AAA-Auction
offering materials, represented that investors' funds from the
merchandise
Purchase-Resale Agreements would be used to purchase inventory.
42. These statements were materially false and misleading because,
in fact,
AAA-Auction and Weare used investors' funds to purchase and expand
AAA-Auction's computer infrastructure in order to prepare AAA-Auction
for an
initial public offering that ultimately never occurred. AAA-Auction
and Weare also
used investor money to cover other business operating expenses
and Weare's
personal expenses, including child support payments.
43. From in or about October 1997 through July 1999, AAA-Auction
and Weare
made statements in AAA-Auction's offering materials that investors
would
receive a fixed percentage ranging from 50 to 80 percent of the
principal
amount of their investment, which would be paid in quarterly
payments to
investors. In the AAA-Auction offering materials, AAA-Auction
and Weare also
promised to repay each investor’s principal after one year.
44. These statements made by AAA-Auction and Weare were materially
false
and misleading. AAA-Auction and Weare did not disclose that AAA-Auction
had
failed to generate sufficient revenues from merchandise sales
to pay the
promised returns and in fact the defendants did not pay and had
not paid
investors the promised quarterly returns nor did they repay the
principal after
one year.
45. From in or about October 1997 through July 1999, AAA-Auction
and Weare
made statements in AAA-Auction's offering materials that each
investor's
investment was "safe" because it was "collateralized by large
quantities of
merchandise" including "all the merchandise in [AAA-Auction's]
warehouse."
AAA-Auction and Weare also promised to provide each investor
with a "master
inventory listing" describing the collateral. These statements
about the safety
of the investment were materially false and misleading because
Weare and
AAA-Auction used part of the investors' funds to pay business
and personal
expense rather than to purchase inventory. Additionally, AAA-Auction
did not
hold a large quantity of inventory to secure the investment;
the inventory was
kept in a room at AAA-Auction rather than in a warehouse as represented
and
the defendants never provided any list of the inventory to investors.
46. Weare and AAA-Auction knew their statements in the offering
materials
about the use of investors’ funds, the rate of return to be paid,
and the safety
of the investments were false and misleading. Weare and AAA-Auction
did not
use all the funds to purchase inventory, rather they used the
funds to pay
business and personal expenses. They did not provide a detailed
list of the
merchandise purchased with each investor’s funds or a list of
the collateral in
AAA-Auction’s warehouse. AAA-Auction never held a large quantity
of inventory
to secure the investments. Merchandise was not kept in a warehouse,
but
rather in a small room at AAA-Auction’s office. AAA-Auction and
Weare had sole
control over the use of the money received from investors, and
payments made
to investors, and they knew that they did not make the promised
quarterly
payments to all the investors.
47. AAA-Auction and Weare failed to disclose in the offering materials
or in any
other manner the material fact that AAA-Auction and Weare had
agreed to pay
commissions of 30 to 40 percent of the funds raised to Cosco
or Global
International.
48. From in or about October 1997 through July 1999, AAA-Auction
and Weare
made statements in AAA-Auction’s offering materials that, from
1988 to 1993,
Weare “was the founder and President of a non-profit organization
assisting
the homeless.”
49. AAA-Auction and Weare failed to disclose in the offering materials
the
material fact that, in May 1994, Weare pled guilty to two counts
of charitable
fraud with respect to the United Children’s Foundation for misappropriating
approximately $65,000.
FIRST CLAIM
WEARE AND J&K ARE VIOLATING SECTION 10(B) OF THE EXCHANGE
ACT [15
U.S.C. § 78J(B)] AND RULE 10B-5 [17 C.F.R. § 240.10B-5]
50. Paragraphs 1 through 30 are hereby realleged and incorporated
by
reference.
51. Weare and J&K, and each of them, directly and indirectly,
by the use of the
means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or of the
mails, in
connection with the purchase and sale of securities:
(a) have employed, are employing, and are about to employ devices,
schemes,
or artifices to defraud;
(b) have made, are making and are about to make untrue statements
of
material fact, or have omitted, are omitting and are about to
omit to state
material facts necessary in order to make the statements made,
in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
(c) have engaged in acts, practices or courses of business which
have
operated, are operating and will operate as a fraud or deceit
upon other
persons, including purchasers and sellers of such securities.
52. By reason of the foregoing, Weare and J&K and each of
them, have violated
and are violating Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C.
§ 78j(b)] and
Rule 10b-5 [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5].
SECOND CLAIM
WEARE AND J&K ARE VIOLATING SECTION 17(A) OF THE SECURITIES
ACT [15
U.S.C. § 77Q(A)]
53. Paragraphs 1 through 30 are hereby realleged and incorporated
by
reference.
54. Weare and J&K, and each of them, directly or indirectly,
in the offer or sale
of securities, by the use of the means or instruments of transportation
or
communication in interstate commerce or by the use of the mails:
(a) have employed, are employing, or are about to employ devices,
schemes or
artifices to defraud;
(b) have obtained, are obtaining or are about to obtain money
or property by
means of untrue statements of material fact and omissions to
state material
facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in light
of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
(c) have engaged, are engaged, or are about to engage in transactions,
acts,
practices and courses of business that operated or would operate
as a fraud
upon purchasers of securities.
55. By reason of the foregoing, Weare and J&K, and each of
them, have
violated and are violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act
[15 U.S.C. §
77q(a)].
THIRD CLAIM
WEARE AND J&K ARE VIOLATING SECTIONS 5(A) AND (C) OF THE SECURITIES
ACT [15 U.S.C. § 77(E)]
56. Paragraphs 1 through 30 are hereby realleged and incorporated
by
reference.
57. From at least November 1999 to date, Weare and J&K have
offered and
sold and continue to offer and sell memberships in the Rent Free
Program,
which are investment contracts within the definition of securities
in Section 2(1)
of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77b(l)].
58. J&K has not filed with the Commission a registration statement
pursuant to
the provisions of the Securities Act in connection with the offer
and sale of
these securities.
59. J&K and Weare, and each of them, directly or indirectly,
have made use of
the means or instruments of transportation or communication in
interstate
commerce or of the mails
to offer and sell securities through the use or medium of prospectus
or
otherwise when no registration statement has been filed or was
in effect as to
such securities and when no exemption from registration was available.
60. By reason of the foregoing, Weare and J&K have violated
and are violating
Section 5(a) and (c) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. §
77e].
FOURTH CLAIM
WEARE AND AAA-AUCTION ARE VIOLATING SECTION 10(B) OF THE EXCHANGE
ACT (15 U.S.C. § 78J(B)] AND RULE 10B-5 [17 C.F.R. §
240.10B-5]
61. Paragraphs 1 through 49 are hereby re-alleged and incorporated
by
reference.
62. Weare and AAA-Auction, and each of them, directly and indirectly,
by the
use of the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce,
or of the mails,
in connection with the purchase and sale of securities:
(a) have employed, are employing, and are about to employ devices,
schemes,
or artifices to defraud;
(b) have made, are making and are about to make untrue statements
of
material fact, or have omitted, are omitting and are about to;omit
to state
material facts necessary in order to make the statements made,
in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
(c) have engaged in acts, practices or courses of business which
have
operated, are operating and will operate as a fraud or deceit
upon other
persons, including purchasers and sellers of such securities.
63. By reason of the foregoing, Weare and AAA-Auction and each
of them, have
violated and are violating Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act
[15 U.S.C. § 78j(b)]
and Rule 10b5 [17 C.F.R. §240.10b-5].
FIFTH CLAIM
WEARE AND AAA-AUCTION ARE VIOLATING SECTION 17(A) OF THE SECURITIES
ACT [15 U.S.C. § 77Q(A)]
64. Paragraphs 1 through 49 are hereby realleged and incorporated
by
reference.
65. Weare and AAA-Auction, and each of them, directly or indirectly,
in the offer
or sale of securities, by the use of the means or instruments
of transportation
or communication in interstate commerce or by the use of the
mails:
(a) have employed, are employing, or are about to employ devices,
schemes or
artifices to defraud;
(b) have obtained, are obtaining or are about to obtain money
or property by
means of untrue statements of material fact and omissions to
state material
facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in light
of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and
(c) have engaged, are engaged, or are about to engage in transactions,
acts,
practices and courses of business that operated or would operate
as a fraud
upon purchasers of securities.
66. By reason of the foregoing, Weare and AAA-Auction, and each
of them, have
violated and are violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act
[15 U.S.C. §
77q(a)].
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, the Commission respectfully requests that the Court:
I.
Find that Kenneth Roy Weare, J&K Global Marketing Corporation,
and
AAA-Auction.com, Inc. and each of them, committed the violations
alleged.
II.
Grant as to Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction a Temporary Restraining
Order,
Preliminary Injunction, and a Permanent Injunction, restraining
and enjoining
them, and each of them, and their officers, agents, servants,
employees,
attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation
with them who
receive actual notice by personal service or otherwise, from
violating Section
10(b) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. § 78j(b)] and Rule
10b-5 [17 C.F.R. §
240.10b-5].
III.
Grant as to Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction a Temporary Restraining
Order,
Preliminary Injunction, and a Permanent Injunction, restraining
and enjoining
them, and each of them, and their officers, agents, servants,
employees,
attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation
with them who
receive actual notice by personal service or otherwise, from
violating Section
17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 [15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)].
IV.
Grant as to Weare and J&K a Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary
Injunction, and a Permanent Injunction, restraining and enjoining
them, and
each of them, and their officers, agents, servants, employees,
attorneys, and
those persons in active concert with them who receive actual
notice by personal
service or otherwise, from, directly or indirectly, making use
of the means or
instruments of transportation or communication in interstate
commerce or of the
mails to offer and sell securities through the use or medium
of prospectus or
otherwise when no registration statement has been filed or is
in effect as to
such securities and when no exemption from registration is available
in violation
of Section 5(a) and (c) of the Securities Act of 1933 [15 U.S.C.
§ 77e].
V.
Grant orders directing Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction, and each
of them, and their
officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, to disgorge
all illegal
gains, together with prejudgment interest.
VI.
Issue orders directing Weare, J&K and AAA-Auction, and each
of them, to pay
civil money penalties pursuant to Section 20(d) of the Securities
Act [15 U.S.C. §
77t(d)], and Section 21(d)(3) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C.
§ 78u(d)(3)].
VII.
Grant such other relief as this Court may deem just or appropriate.
Dated this 10th day of April 2001.
/s/
Leslie Hendrickson Hughes
Margaret A. Cain
Maria L. Sepulveda
Dawn A. Leporati
Securities and Exchange Commission
1801 California Street, Suite 4800
Denver, Colorado 80202-2648
Telephone (303) 844-1000