Securities and Exchange Commission v. Femenia et al

Filing 27

ORDER granting 21 Motion Consent of Defendant Matthew Musante to Preliminary Injunction and Other Relief. Signed by Senior Judge Graham Mullen on 12/13/2012. (eef)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
CHARLOTTE DIVISION

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No.
3:12-cv-803-GCM

v.
JOHN W. FEMENIA, SHAWN C. HEGEDUS,
DANIELLE C. LAURENTI, CORAM REAL
ESTATE HOLDING, INC., GOLDSTAR P.S. INC.,
ROGER A. WILLIAMS, KENNETH M. RABY,
FRANK M. BURGESS, JAMES A. MUSANTE,
MATTHEW J. MUSANTE, ANTHONY C.
MUSANTE and AARON M. WENS,
Defendants,
and
KRISTINE LACK and CHRISTINE E. MUSANTE,
Relief Defendants.

ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER RELIEF
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) having filed a Complaint
and Emergency Ex Parte Application for a Temporary Restraining Order and Other Relief on December
5, 2012 against, among others, Defendant Matthew Musante (“Musante”) (the Commission and
Musante referred to herein as the “Parties”); Musante having entered a general appearance;
consented to the Court’s jurisdiction over him and the subject matter of this action;
consented to entry of this Order Granting Preliminary Injunction and Other Relief (the
“Order”) without admitting or denying the allegations of the Complaint (except as to

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jurisdiction); waived findings of fact and conclusions of law; and waived any right to appeal
from this Order.
I.
IT IS ORDERED that Musante, his respective agents, servants, employees, attorneys and
all persons in active concert or participation with them, in connection with the purchase or sale or
in the offer or sale of securities, by use of any means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce or
any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce, or by the
mails or any facility of any national securities exchange, be, and they hereby are, preliminarily
restrained and enjoined from, directly or indirectly:
A.

employing any device, scheme or artifice to defraud;

B.

engaging in any act, practice or course of business which operates or would operate

as a fraud or deceit upon any person by providing false or misleading information or omitting to
provide material information to actual or prospective investors concerning the performance, return,
existence, use or disposition of investor funds; or
C.

obtaining money or property by means of any untrue statement of a material fact, or

omitting 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,
in violation of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act ”) (15 U.S.C. § 78j(b) and Exchange Act Rule
10b-5 thereunder (17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5).
II.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all the relief provided for in this Court’s December

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5, 2012 Temporary Restraining Order Freezing Assets of Defendants and Relief Defendants
and other relief (“December 5 Order”) is hereby extended as to Musante until further order of the
Court, EXCEPT THAT:
1.

The preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for December 17, 2012 as to the

Musante is cancelled as he has consented to a preliminary injunction. This provision does not
impact the hearing with respect to the other defendants or relief defendants; and
2.

The asset freeze with respect to Musante is lifted solely with respect to his JP

Morgan Chase N.A. checking account, account number xxx-xx-5171.
III.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Court will retain jurisdiction over this matter
and over Musante, in order to implement and carry out the terms of all Orders and Decrees that
may be entered.
IV.
Musante’s Consent is incorporated herein with the same force and effect as if fully set
forth herein, and Musante shall comply with all of the undertakings and agreements set forth
therein.

Signed: December 13, 2012

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