FINAL JUDGEMENTS ENTERED AGAINST FORMER EXECUTIVES AT RECOV ENERGY CORP.

FROM: U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Court Enters Final Judgments Against Richard Verdiramo and Vincent L. Verdiramo, Esq.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that on April 29, 2013, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered final judgments against Richard Verdiramo and Vincent L. Verdiramo, Esq., that require the defendants to pay full disgorgement and civil money penalties, and bar them from penny stock offerings and from serving as officers or directors of public companies. This relief supplements the injunctions and disgorgement that the SEC had previously obtained and concludes the SEC’s case against the defendants.

In March 2010, the SEC charged Richard Verdiramo, RECOV Energy Corp.’s former Chairman, CEO, President, and CFO, with, among other things, committing fraud and violating the securities registration requirements based on his issuances of RECOV stock for his and his father’s personal benefit. The SEC charged his father, Vincent Verdiramo, an attorney who facilitated the misconduct and who was a recipient of some of the RECOV stock, with aiding and abetting his son’s fraud and with violating the securities registration requirements.

The Court previously ordered all of the injunctive relief sought by the Commission in its Complaint against both Richard and Vincent Verdiramo for all of their misconduct. The Court had also previously ordered the defendants to pay full disgorgement for their violations of the securities registration requirements, including holding Richard Verdiramo jointly and severally liable with other defendants. In November 2011, the SEC issued an order suspending Vincent Verdiramo from appearing or practicing before the SEC as an attorney.

The recent judgment requires Richard Verdiramo to disgorge an additional $145,000 in ill-gotten gains plus $61,968 in prejudgment interest, and requires him to pay a civil penalty of $100,000. In addition, the Court barred Richard Verdiramo from participating in any penny stock offering and from serving as an officer or director of any reporting company for five years. The Judgment against Vincent Verdiramo orders him to disgorge an additional $462,000 in ill-gotten gains, plus $197,444 in prejudgment interest, and requires him to pay a civil penalty of $100,000. The Court also permanently barred Vincent Verdiramo from participating in any penny stock offering and from serving as an officer or director of any reporting company. Both Richard and Vincent Verdiramo consented to the entry of the final judgments against them without admitting or denying any of the allegations of the SEC’s Complaint.

ALLEGED SHAM COMPANY SCHEME LEADS TO SANCTIONS AND MONEY JUDGEMENTS AGAINST INDIVIDUAL

FROM: U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Yitzchak Zigdon Settles SEC Fraud Charges

On January 23, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a final judgment by consent against Yitzchak Zigdon in the SEC's enforcement action against seven defendants concerning the common stock of CO2 Tech Ltd. The final judgment enjoins Zigdon from future violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The Court also ordered Zigdon to pay disgorgement of $260,000, prejudgment interest of $74,516 and a civil penalty in the amount of $130,000 for a total of $464,516 in monetary sanctions. In addition, the Court barred Zigdon from participating in an offering of penny stock. Zigdon consented to the entry of the final judgment without admitting or denying any of the allegations of the Commission's Complaint.

According to the Commission's complaint filed in February of 2011, the defendants' coordinated misconduct enabled them to sell CO2 Tech stock at artificially inflated prices, resulting in profits of over $7 million. In the complaint, the Commission alleged that CO2 Tech Ltd. was a sham company without significant assets or operations whose stock prices were quoted in the Pink Sheets. According to the complaint, among other things, Zigdon provided the paper work necessary to establish the account that was used to dump the shares of CO2 Tech on to the market. The complaint also stated that he caused materially false and misleading information about CO2 Tech to be disseminated in press releases and on its website. In particular, the complaint alleged that CO2 Tech falsely touted business relationships that the company had not formed, including a relationship with the Boeing Company when, in fact, there had been no communications, correspondence or understandings between CO2 Tech and Boeing.