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SEC LITIGATION RELEASE
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
DISTRICT JOINT VENTURE NATURAL GAS SUBMERSIBLE TECHNOLOGY UNDERWATER SUBMERSIBLES SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION SOURCE ENERGY CORPORATION TIMOTHY UTAH JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT PLANTS LICENSE DEEP-WATER NATURAL GAS REFINERIES CONTRACT NATURAL GAS PROCESSING REVENUE FIRST PLANT PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY ABILITY TRAVEL KNOTS COMPLEX WORK TASKS EFFICIENCY OIL SERVICING INDUSTRY PURPORTED SUPPLIERS |
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Litigation Release No. 16951 / April 4, 2001
S.E.C. v. Source Energy Corporation and Timothy R. Kraft, CIV 2
00CV757B (U.S.D.C., D. Utah)
On March 6, 2001, the Honorable Dee Benson, U.S. District Judge,
District of Utah, issued a permanent injunction by default against
Timothy R. Kraft. Kraft was enjoined from violating Section 10(b) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. Kraft
was also ordered to pay civil money penalties which would be
determined upon further motion by the Commission.
The complaint alleges that Kraft, in February of 1998, wrote and
disseminated a press release stating that his company, Source Energy
Corporation (Source), had entered into a joint venture agreement with
a Canadian company to manufacture, operate, and market three portable
natural gas refineries in the Ukrainian Republic. The press release
further claims that the contract value of the three natural gas
processing plants would exceed $26 million in revenue to the joint
venture and the first plant would be operational by the fall of 1998.
In fact, no joint venture agreement existed between the two companies
before or after Kraft issued the February press release. In addition,
in October 1998, Kraft wrote and distributed another press release
which claimed that his company had acquired a license to proprietary
technology that would allow Source to manufacture manned and remote
operated underwater submersibles that had the ability to travel in
deep-water at nearly four knots and perform complex work tasks that
would represent new levels of efficiency in the oil and natural gas
well servicing industry. The purported suppliers of the underwater
submersible technology never licensed their manned or remote operated
deep-water submersible technology to Source or Kraft.
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Modified 04/04/2001
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