SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 16039 / January 22, 1999 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. MILLENNIUM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, INC. AND MARK SHKOLIR, 97 Civ. 9019 (AKH) (S.D.N.Y.) The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") announced that, on December 29, 1998, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a Final Judgment By Default Of Permanent Injunction And Other Relief Against Defendant Millennium Software Solutions, Inc. ("Millennium"). The Final Judgment permanently enjoins Millennium from further violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5, and directs Millennium to disgorge $380,225 (the amount that it profited from its fraudulent conduct), plus prejudgment interest, and to pay a $380,225 civil penalty. The Final Judgment arises from a complaint filed on December 8, 1997, in which the Commission alleged that since at least November 1997, Millennium and its president, Mark Shkolir, had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars by offering and selling Millennium common stock and warrants to investors by misrepresenting Millennium's financial condition and falsely stating that Charles Schwab & Co., a registered broker-dealer, was affiliated with the Millennium offering. Millennium was described in the Complaint as a Delaware corporation that claimed to be in the business of developing solutions to computer problems arising from the arrival of the year 2000. Millennium and Shkolir fraudulently raised approximately $380,225 from investors. The money raised from investors has been frozen by court order throughout the litigation. Millennium failed to answer, plead or otherwise respond to the Commission’s Complaint. Separately, on May 21, 1998, Shkolir was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud in a criminal trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. U. S. v. Mark Shkolir, No. 98-Cr.-0001 (PKL) (S.D.N.Y.). On December 11, 1998, the court sentenced Shkolir to imprisonment for thirty months and ordered Shkolir to pay a criminal fine of $5,000. The Commission’s civil litigation against Shkolir is pending.