Securities and Exchange Commission v. Wellco Energy, L.L.C. et al

Filing 39

ORDER granting 37 Unopposed Motion to Amend/Correct/Modify Preliminary Injunctions Against Rifkin, Looper, Pacheco and White by Judge Marcia S. Krieger on 8/19/09. (Attachments: # 1 Amended PI as to Rifkin, # 2 Amended PI as to Looper, # 3 Amended PI as to Pacheco, # 4 Amended PI as to White)(msksec, )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Honorable Marcia S. Krieger Case No. 09-cv-01114-MSK-KLM SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. WELLCO ENERGY, LLC, JUSTIN WILLIAM RIFKIN, PATRICK V. LOOPER, RICHARD G. PACHECO, and DUSTIN D. WHITE, Defendants.

AMENDED ORDER OF PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AS TO PATRICK V. LOOPER

PURSUANT TO the parties' Unopposed Motion To Amend Preliminary Injunction Against Rifkin, Looper, Pacheco and White (# 37), it is hereby ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED. 1. That pending the determination of this matter on the merits, the Defendant Looper, his agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise, and each of them, are preliminarily enjoined and restrained from, directly or indirectly, in the offer or sale of any security by the use of any means or instruments of transportation, or communication in interstate commerce or by the use of the mails: (1) employing any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud; or (2) obtaining money or property by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances

under which they were made, not misleading, or; (3) engaging in any transaction, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon the purchaser in violation of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 [15 U.S.C. §77q(a)]. 2. That pending the determination of this matter on the merits, the Defendant Looper, his agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise, and each of them, are preliminarily enjoined and restrained from, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange in connection with the purchase or sale of any security: (1) employing any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud; (2) making any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (3) engaging in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person in violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [15 U.S.C. § 78j(b)] and Rule 10b-5 thereunder [17 C.F.R. 240.10b-5]. 3. That pending the determination of this matter on the merits, the Defendant Looper, his agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise, and each of them, are preliminarily enjoined and restrained from, directly or indirectly, from violating Section 5 of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77e], directly or

indirectly, in the absence of any applicable exemption: (a) unless a registration statement is in effect as to a security, making use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or of the mails to sell such security through the use or medium of any prospectus or otherwise; (b) unless a registration statement is in effect as to a security, carrying or causing to be carried through the mails or in interstate commerce, by any means or instruments of transportation, any such security for the purpose of sale or for delivery after sale; or (c) making use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or of the mails to offer to sell or offer to buy through the use or medium of any prospectus or otherwise any security, unless a registration statement has been filed with the Commission as to such security, or while the registration statement is the subject of a refusal order or stop order or (prior to the effective date of the registration statement) any public proceeding of examination under Section 8 of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77h]. 4. That pending the determination of this matter on the merits, the Defendant Looper, his agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise, and each of them, are preliminarily enjoined and restrained from, directly or indirectly, violating Section 15(a) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. § 78o] by acting as a broker or dealer unless registered as provided by law. 5. That pending the determination of this matter on the merits, Defendant Looper, his agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with him who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or

otherwise, are hereby restrained from destroying, mutilating, concealing, altering, or disposing of any document referring or relating in any manner to any transactions described in the SEC's complaint in this action, or to any communications between or among any of the Defendants. As used in this Order, "document" means the original and all non-identical copies (whether non-identical because of handwritten notation or otherwise) of all written or graphic matter, however produced, and any other tangible record, or electronic data compilation capable of reproduction in tangible form, including, without limitation, computer data, e-mail messages, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, telephone records, reports, studies, telexes, diaries, calendar entries, contracts, letters of agreement, and including any and all existing drafts of all documents. 6. This preliminary injunction shall remain in effect until further order of the Court. DATED this 19th day of August, 2009. BY THE COURT:

Marcia S. Krieger United States District Judge