DATE: OCT. 11, 1993 What follows is the result of research performed on Nexis. Project commenced on 9/7/93 and intensive research began on 9/9. I did not attempt to put together whole stories. Rather I have collected factoids, some of which fit a bigger story and some which may not. MAXXAM Bd. OF DIRECTORS Lilyan H. Affinito, MAXXAM *7/11/83. ¬Newsday. Affinito showed up 0 for 26 meetings of the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City (MTA). She's Chair of the powerful Financial Committee. Straphangers Campaign (good activist group) hates her, as does Newsday. She's on the Boards of Chrysler, Caterpillar, K-MART, NY Telephone, Jostens and Tombrands. *8/22/90. Newswire. Affinito elect4d to K-Mart Board along with Joseph Califano, Jr. former Cabinet Secretary of Health, Education and Human Services. In 1968, Affinito began her career with MAXXAM (sic) (actually its Simplicity buy article calls it MAXXAM, interestingly) as its comptroller. In 1972 she made the Board of Directors and in 1976 became the President and Chief Operations Officer. Became Vice Chairman (sic) in 1987. *8/5/87. PR Newswire. Affinito elected to Jostens Board. Also was with Price Waterhouse, Olgivy Group. Jostens makes products and sevices for education, business and athletics. *10/28/86. PR Newswire. Affinito elected Tambrands (makers of Tampax and other health care stuff.) *9/13/83. Women's Wear Daily. Good history of Simplicity, of which Affinito was a veteran. *1/3/80. New York Times. Affinito elected to Caterpillar Board. Connally & Brian Lewis *4/5/85. American Banker. lst City Bancorp. reveals troubled loans to firms connected w/3 directors, including Connally. $4 million credit to Connally. Loan originally made to Brian Lewis currently an Austin real estate developer. Lewis worked on Connally's 1980 Presidential Campaign. Loan made by 1st National City Bank of Houston. Anonymous officials said Lewis used to live in Houston--he bought and renovated old homes in Montrose area. Connally guarateed the loan, being on the bank's board. Developers were surprised that Lewis couldn't pay on his own. Lewis currently renovating a church into a condo in Austin. Leo Farrenkopf, Jr. MAXXAM *7/5/93. SAN DIEGO BASED NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORIES, INC. PURCHASED DAMON CORP. FOR $258 MILLION. NATIONAL HEALTH NOW THE 2ND LARGEST LAB. DAMON IN-HOUSE COUNSEL--FARRENKOPT AND BRUCE G. GODMAN, SEN. VP *4/20/87. Bus. Wire. MCO MAXXAM merger. lawsuit by shareholders settled. Farrenkopf is contact at 212-735-0400. Healthdyne connection 3/15/90. Williams Act Fiklings w/SEC. Healthdyne, Inc. 5-33920 13 DA by MAXXAM Properties et al. 3/15/90. MAXXAM cut stake in Healthdyne to 4.4%. 3/3/89. Reuters. MAXXAM holds 5.3% of Healthdyne. Hill & Knowlton w/FBI *7/23/90. Donald Segretti worked for H & K in Hong Kong then set up his own PR firm in CT. *9/27/88 Interview with Marina Oswald *5/23/88. Ed Meese and Chair Robert Gray of H & K are good friends. *4/14/83. William Durbin, former Chair of H & K worked a an FBI agent during WWII, as a PR advisor. James. V. Iaco, Jr., MAXXAM *1/11/93. San Diego Daily Transcript. Intermark, led by Charles, "Red" Scott, CEO and Chairman. Triton is their subsidiary. Iaco is Senior VP *10/11/91. Iaco resigns from Interlock to pursue other things. *8/14/91. Intermark ailing. May need to sell assets. *9/27/90. Iaco resigns from MAXAM K-Mart Connection, MAXXAM 8/19/92. C. Hurwitz and K-Mart Chair Joseph Antonini invited to same Republican luncheon in Houston (Bill, were you there). Antonini sick and can't make it. 8/13/92. Luncheon for Bob Dole at River Oaks home of Lynn and Oscar Wyatt has Connally, Hurwitz and Antonini all in attendance. Bob says Wyatt and Connally went to Irag together just before the war to retrieve hostages. He's a oil man with interests in Irag and Iran, for starters. Glen M. Kassan, MAXXAM *4/15/92. Ballantrae Partners LP of NY sold 1.76 million shares of Damon. Stockholders group includes Kassan Robert L. Rosen, Ballantrae and RLR Partners LP. *7/14/92. Henry Hendler on Damon's Board. *1/14/92. LA Times. The American Magnetics called Nomad Partners includes Ballantrae Partners led by Rosen, Chariman and Kassan, Executive VP of American Magnetics. *8/23/88. Los Angeles Times. Hostile $201 million bid for Damon by Rosen of American Magnetics. Nomad is Damon spelled backwards. *4/5/88. Drexel helping American Magnetics takeover Damon. *11/12/85. Daily Labor Report. Kassan found guilty for making restaurant closure threats for union in at Palmas de Mar Co. in Puerto Rico. Local 610. CEO Kassan President: William Stowell. Bob Lanier and Hurwitz *8/29/93. Houston Chronicle. Barbara Hurwitz and Elize Lanier w/Bob Lanier as Chair annual Men Who Cook at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at the River Oaks Country Club. 8/29/93. Houston Chronicle. Horsetrack Story. Lanier, Judge Lindsay all there. Harris County Judge Linday says: "When Charles cam in it took the county off the hot seat. 7/26/93. Chronicle. Maxine Messinger, author. Barry Silverman and Shara Fryer wedding at Ritz Carlton. Judge Eric Andell, Rabbi David Lyon. Nellie Connally arrived w/ 2 Hurwitz's. Silverman joined Race Track. 7/20/93. Clint Eastwood knew Connally. Lanier in same article, unrelated. 7/98/93. Salomon Brothers of Chicago issued bonds for race track. Lindsay supported public funding for track. Backed down, then "private financing" was sought. Mayor Lanier a close friend of Hurwitz. 1992. John Connally, now dead, fundraised for Lanier in 1991. 5/12/92. Hurwitz contributes to Lanier campaign. 2/11/93. Chronicle. Gayle Bentsen awards to wives Hurwitz and Lanier, Child Advocates. Husbands of latter two were present. 10/13/92. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," sung to Hurwitz by Mary Joanne Antone Hatfield at fundraising party. 1992. Barbara Hurwitz at GOP fundraiser. 7/29/92. USA Today. Hurwitz/Lanier friends for 30 years. David B. Learner *1/21/85. Stanford, CT. MRCA Infornation Services President David B. Learner wants all family expenditures written in experiment for Banks to see how people spend their money. *1/10/85. Mentions that Learner elected to Board and Farrenkopt associate of Kramer, Levin, etc. William C. Leone, MAXXAM *4/18/77. Business Week. Leone with Farah Mfg. Co. in El Paso (Clothing Maker). He and 2 others resign from Board in Protest. *1977. Wall Street Journal Excerpts. *12/20/76. Leone and others appointed to Board of Datapoint. *7/27/ 79. New York Times. Leone named acting vice-chair of McCullough Oil Corp. *8/27/79. Joseph Hegina (or Hegena) removed as Vice Chair of MCO but he's ill. C.V. Wood, Jr. resigned. *4/18/80. Board of MCO to include Kozmetsky (of MDR), Leone, and Hurwitz. *7/13/80. New York Times. Good piece on Hurwitz on MCO Takeover. *11/21/80. PR Newswire. Datapoint Board: Gene Beare, Harry Bowles, Joseph Degen, Gistaro, Karnes, Klutznick, Kozmetsky, Leone, O'Kelley, Palermo, Poon. *9/26/83. Business Wire. Avco sells all real estate holdings to MCO. Avco had sold other properties to the Stein-Brief Group. Donold Farrar, Pres. of Avco. IMPORTANT: IT SEEMS THAT MCO IS WORKING WITH STEIN-BRIEF, A KNOWN CRIMINAL ENTITY. *11/17/83. Datapoint names directos including new ones: Ms. Evelyn Berezin, President of Greenhouse Management Corp, Glen Cove, New York. 5/9/84. Business Wire. Horizon Board includes Hurwitz, Leone and John Sommerhalder. *7/3/84. UPI. Floyd Bailey, President of Horizon. *8/29/84. Bailey resigns all positions except Director. *10/29/84. Business Wire. Horizon's new Board is Albert Carollo, J. Michael Crockett, Sam P. Daniel, Jr;. Isadore H. Handmaker, Gene W. Scheider, C.V. Wood, Hurwitz, Leone, Rosen and Sommerhalder. Staff includes: Richard Lovinger, VP; richard M. Willcoxson, Treasurer. Move from Tucson to Fountain Hills. *12/7/84. Business Wire. John D. Ssprough, appointed Chief Executive VP of Horizon, Veteran Real Estate man. *5/16/85. 7 Datapoint Board members resign. Old board too secret. All they did was discuss lawsuits, including Kozmetsky and Leone. *3/15/85. Datapoint New Board includes Beare, Berezin, Gistaro, Kozmetsky, Leone and new members: Asher Edelman, Raymond French, Daniel R. Karl, Dr. Roger Leroy Miller, Charles P. Stevenson, Dwight D. Sutherland. *4/85. New Mexico Business Jojrnal. Good history of Horizon. *4/10/85. Southwest Newswire. Leone and Kozmetsky resign from Datapoint. Were on Board since 1976. *10/21/85. Houston Business Journal. Shamrock attempts to takeover Horizon. Attempt fails but its an intersting story. *3/23/90. Leone Retires as President of MAXXAM. *6/8/90. Business Wire. James Iaco of MAXXAM will resign as Chief Financial Officer. *9/26/90. Business Wire. John Seidl names President of MAXXAM. John T. LaDoc named to Board and Chief Financial Officer. *10/6/92. LA Times. Leone joins Commercial Underwriters as executive VP and Chief Financial Officer. Used to hold position at Topa Life Insurance of Woodland Hills, CA.. MYSTERIOUS. IS THIS THE SAME LEONE. MIDDLE INITIAL IS THE SAME. Ezra Levin, MAXXAM *7/4/87. Levin firm received $1.5 mil in fees and $192,000 in disbursements from MCO for Simplicity and MCO Takeovers. *4/12/88. Story about disatisfaction with growth of firm. Levin's firm represented Drexel in takeover of Telex by Memorex. Firmed called Kramer, Levin, Nessin, Kamin and Frankel. *7/88. American Lawyer. Ezra Levin orchestrated takeover. Got 27% of Kaiser. *1988. Houston Business Journal. Levin shares equal voting rights with Hurwitz, Munitz on Kaiser board. Barry Munitz, MAXXAM (out of press from 1984-87) *6/13/88. National Mortgage News. Munitz paid $409.496 as Chief of Executive Committee of USAT. James H. Paulin, Jr.MAXXAM/Federated Devel. *8/4/92. USA Today. Editorial by Paulin defending Hurwitz. Says he worked with Hurwitz for 20 years. Robert L. Rosen, MAXXAM *7/3/93. New York Times. Rosen is Damon's largest Shareholder. Corning buys Damon, specificallyfor its blood testing facilities. *2/20/91. New York Times. Damon formerly owned buy American Magnetic Corp. *7/14/89. Damon's Board includes Rosen, Glen Kassan (also with MAXXAM) and Henry Hendler. *12/30/88. Rosen of Nomad Partners L.P. tookover Damon. *10/30/88. Business Wire. Speech by Rosen to Damon Shareholders and Executives (one of several listed on Nexis). Very in your face and interesting. *8/23/88. ¬L.A. Times. Rosen-Herbert Gordon Connection. They commuted together on a train. American Magnetics President Verney L. Brown indicted with others for 15 months in Key Largo, FL. Brown was VP at Paradyne, a computer firm in Largo. Accused of lying to SEC investigator looking at Paradyne who had given misleading information to Social Security Administration RE: status of Paradyne equipment. Soc. Sec. had contracted Paradyne to do computer program, apparently. $84 million contract in 1981. Rosen was Chairman of American Magnetics and was with Ballantrae Partners L.P. Rosen also was with Shearson/American Express and Horizon Corp. (84), too. 7/17/84. ¬Business Wire. Triton buys Simplicty. Great Background article. Stanley Rosenberg, MAXXAM Rosenberg, recently added to Board of MAXXAM, was also involved with Home Centers of America and an incredible list of San Antonio scams. I can't believe anyone would do business with this guy. *7/5/93. Texas Lawyer. Generic article on best paid General Councils. Rosenberg gets a bundle just to come to MAXXAM board meetings. *7/5/93. Rosenberg forming new firm, Rosenberg, Tuggey and Agather of San Antonio. He claims joining MAXXAM makes him the target of hundreds of millions of dollars of lawsuits. Can you say "billions," Stanley? *6/18/93. Dallas Business Journal. Connie "Chip" Armstrong, Jr. losses his assets in Bankruptcy Court, but tries to dump his assets before their seized by placing them in his own front company, Hamilton, Taft. Hamilton Taft gives $$$ to Rosenberg. Trustee obtains $400,000 judgement against old Stan. $10 million judgement was also obtained from Mohammed Hadid. Hadid do? Not too well this time around. *4/9/93 San Antonio based Express Cash merges with subsidiary of Ft. Worth's Cash America International, turning over its 18 pawnshops. Express Cash run by CEO Charles Barrett who owns 31% and Stanley Rosenberg 4%. *6/5/92. San Antonio Bus. Journal. Express Cash went public in 1990, experiencing rapid growth. 30 stores were expected by 1994. $4 million in private financing in Dec. 91. Founded in 1988 by Rosenberg and Barrett. Extensive article. *3/22/91. SABJ. Rosenberg is stripped of partnership in 2/90, though it took over one year for this prestigious firm to announce it. FBI ALERT. William Sessions, Jr. is a partner./shareholder in the law firm itself. Rosenberg filed Chapter 11 for his outfit MRD Joint Ventures ($1 million loss) and Culebra 1686, Ltd. ($2.5 million loss). Also $5.5 million property foreclosed--the Danbury Square Apartments--foreclosed by Sunbelt Savings. Partner in property was Kan-Mart, Inc. That right, Kan-Mart. Also, Rosenberg's venture River City Fair, Inc. filed Ch. 11 one year after opening. 2 original partners of Express Cash, David Saks & Doyle Spruill, were indicted for S & L Fraud. They wre convicted and sentenced. They resigned from Express Cash in 1989. Rosenberg was stripped of his partnership because of strong outside interests in public businesses which could jeopardize the firm. 11/23/90. Public offering of stock in Express Cash. 9/10/90. San Antonio Business Journal. 2 Bankruptcies. MRD, 400 acres of raw land in Bulverde Road area, 90 acres of which are valued at $l.1 mil. Original partners include Bernice Denton, Wulfe Investments, Harold Cooper, MD, along with Rosenberg. ALSO, NOTE that Culebra/1686, ltd., located at his law firms address went belly up, owning 1,686 acres in Bexas and Medina Counties worth $2.5 mil. Original members on note from San Antonio Savings Association were Wulfe, Denton, Tom Benson, Jr. and "CHARLES HOROWITZ." I checked Nexus for any other references anyway for a Charles Horowitz and found none at all anywhere. Chip Armstrong owned 49% of River City Fair Stock, which as mentioned failed miserably. *8/17/90. Legal Tangle. Long Distance Services vs. Metromedia Long Distance of NJ. Too complex to describe here. Rosenberg a partner in Long Distance Services. 6/29/90. SABJ. Benson sells profitable bank to help another struggling bank he owns with Rosenberg controlled by the Benson financial corp. 4/2/90. Rosenberg's River City Fair's creditors seek to garnish $120,000 from failed club. 9/25/89. Rosenberg, a shareholder in Office Products of America (OPA), gives a deposition to 4 guys suing Denny for stealing their idea. 8/2l/89. SABJ. Denny denies that Rosenberg was involved with OPA, but Rosenberg admits that he was a major shareholder and possibly involved with starting it (I'm not sure). 4 men contend they met with Denny who turned them down, then met with Rosenberg, who phoned broker D.H. Blair who did arrange for them to meet with Denny who agreed to work with them but reneged on offer. 9/14/87. SABJ. Groos Bank taken over in 1983 by Stanley Rosenberg (had $45 mil in it at the time). He's acquiring Mercantile Bank & Trust following he merger with Commercial National Bank. 7/6/87. Dallas Ft. Worth Bus. Journal. $85 million Centrum, Inc. Owner Rosenberg. It goes bankrupt. Ch. 11. Centrum marketed by David Chortek of Argosy Development. Centrum, I believe was a building project complex of Condos, stores, restaurants, etc. Sam Houston Racetrack, MAXXAM John McMullen, Houston A's owner, sold it to MAXXAM. New Board is Paul Schwartz, Byron Wade and Hurwitz. They replace Robert Harter, Kenneth Peason, Gerald Holtsman, and Kirwin Drovet. *7/23/93. Dallas Morning News. Down the Stretch Column. Sam Houston Racetrack to be managed by Jim Murphy and Bob Levy of Atlantic City Racecourse. It's an ambitious plan because l) it's Texas's first class one racetrack and 2) there's an April deadline and that's nearly impossible. Funding for MAXXAM purchase came through junk bonds financed by Salomon Brothers. 300 acre track included 15 acres of wetlands but article states that MAXXAM took care of that. .7/98/93. Salomon Brothers of Chicago issued bonds for race track. Lindsay supported public funding for track. Backed down, then "private financing" was sought. Mayor Lanier a close friend of Hurwitz. John K. Sands, MAXXAM *6/19/80. Senior VP at Morgan Guarantee Trust. John M. Seidl 1977 Seidl writes for the Harvard Business Review 2/16/77. NY Times. Seidl is Director of Natomas Co. (energy) and a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 8/4/77. Wall Street Journal (excepts). Seidl on Board of Nuclear Services Corp. 9/17/89. Oil & Gas Journal. Natomas, San Francisco Based. Seidl in charge of corporate acquisitions, geothermal, Candadian Marketing,, subsidiaries and real estate division in San Francisco and Sacramento. 2/23/81. Oil & Gas. Seidl named President of Nations North America, subsidiary of Natomas. 8/24/83. Diamond Shamrock merges with Natomaws. Parachute offered to Seidl. 7/16/84. Seidl is Senior VP at Houston Natural Gas (HNG). He has a BS from West Point. In 1971 he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Dept. of Health Education and Welfare. In 1973 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary in Dept. of Interior. He is currently a Director of Village Natioal Bank. 12/31/84. Oil & Gas. Seidl named President of Transwestern Pipe Line Co., a subs. of HNG. 1/23/85. HNG acquires Florida Gas Tramsmition. 5/12/85. John Seidl, President of Enron. 1/23/88. Seidl quits Enron to join Kaiser Tech. His nickname is "Mick" Seidl. Enron is the nation's largest natural gas transmission outfit. 6/5/89. Kaiser to sell stake in Alba in Australia's Boyne. 8/18/89. Kaiser sells Filtrol in VT to a Dutch company. 6/5/90. SF Chronicle. Guest list to lunch with Gorbachev includes (out of l00's): John Seidl, Harry Merlo, Richard Held, W.R. Hearst III, et al 9/92. ESP Business Opportunities. Kaiser Tech working on $100 million shelter in Mozambique. 1992. Kaiser exploring opening plant in Korea. 9/17/92. Iceland wants Kaiser to build an aluminum plant. l0/92. Kaiser plans to upgrade its Discovery Bay plant in Jamaica. 10./6/92. Seidl announces resignation from Kaiser Aluminum and MAXXAM, although some documents from 1993 still show him listed.