==========================================START OF PAGE 1====== UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 14884 / April 19, 1996 Securities & Exchange Commission v. Future Vision Direct Marketing, Inc., et al. (United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Civil Action No. 94-4806) The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on April 10, 1996, the Honorable Nicholas H. Politan of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a Default Judgment against defendants Future Vision Direct Marketing, Inc. ("Future Vision"), Global Wireless, L.L.C. ("Global"), Worldwide Wireless L.L.C. ("Worldwide"), Caracas Wireless Communication, L.P. ("Caracas LP"), Global Communications Holding Corp. and S & G Management, Inc. ("S & G"). The Default Judgment permanently enjoins the six defendants from future violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; permanently enjoins Future Vision, Global, Worldwide and Caracas LP from violations of the registration provisions of the federal securities laws, Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act; permanently enjoins Future Vision from future violations of the broker-dealer registration provisions of Section 15 of the Exchange Act; and orders the six defendants to disgorge, jointly and severally, $ 3.3 million plus pre-judgment interest. This action was filed as an emergency matter on October 3, 1994. The Commission's complaint named the six defendants identified above and four individual defendants: Bruce Schroeder, Joseph Glenski, James Barschow and Philip Forma, alleging they were participants in an ongoing fraudulent scheme involving the sale of unregistered securities in the form of "membership interests" in Global and Worldwide, so-called limited liability companies formed to fund wireless cable television operations in Venezuela. The Commission alleged that the defendants had sold, through Future Vision, approximately $3 million of these "membership interests." The Commission also alleged that the defendants had fraudulently sold approximately $300,000 in limited partnership interests in Caracas LP for the same purpose. The Commission alleged that the offering materials provided to investors failed to disclose material information concerning, among other things: the individual defendants' primary role in the offerings; excessive compensation and commissions paid to the individual defendants and the entities they controlled; the individual defendants' significant financial interest in the ==========================================START OF PAGE 2====== offerings; and, the existence of prior criminal and/or civil fraud actions against the individual defendants and S & G. The - 2 - Commission also alleged that Future Vision, S & G, and the four individual defendants misappropriated investor funds from the offerings. On October 3, 1994, on the same date the action was filed, Judge Politan entered an order temporarily restraining the defendants from future violations of the charged provisions, and freezing their assets. (For further information, see Commission Litigation Release Number 14287). On January 12, 1995, Judge Politan entered a preliminary injunction against the defendants pursuant to their consent (see, Commission Litigation Release Number 14384). The Commission is still in litigation with the four remaining individual defendants.