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Aug 30, 2010
Deeper look at how Wall Street's self-dealing led to housing bubble cites role of Clearwater financier — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Trigaux Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Wake up and good morning. If some of you wonder why the business media is not taking a deeper "what the heck happened" look at the financial meltdown of recent years, take heart. ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. has begun publishing a series about how, in the middle of America's housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. And in the
latest part of ...
Jul 9, 2010
Declaration of Mark "Marty" Rathbun
Type: Declaration
Tag(s):
"Blow Drill" •
All Clear Unit (ACU) •
Anne Joasem (aka Anne Rathbun) •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Billy Sheehan •
Bryan J. Zwan •
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO) •
Church of Scientology International (CSI) •
Claire Headley •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Denise Miscavige Gentile (formerly Covington, Licciardi) •
Digital Lightwave •
Don Jason •
Ethics (Scientology) •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Gregory "Greg" Wilhere •
Greta Van Susteren •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Isaac Hayes •
John Brousseau •
John Travolta •
Kirstie Alley •
Lawsuit •
Lisa Marie Presley •
Lisa McPherson •
Marc Headley •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Michael Doven •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
Michelle "Shelly" Miscavige (né Barnett) •
MV Freewinds (formerly, La Bohème) •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Perjury •
Private investigator(s) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Tax matter •
Tommy Davis •
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission •
Warren L. McShane •
Watchdog Committee (WDC)
Feb 20, 2009
Legal battle between Wachovia and a hedge fund shows the interconnected world of a Wall Street fiasco — Charlotte Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sarah Okeson Source:
Charlotte Business Journal It was a tiny deal in Wall Street terms. In May 2007, Wachovia Bank agreed to make what was essentially a $10 million bet with a small offshore hedge fund.
No big deal; certainly no big impact on Wachovia at the time.
But now, credit markets have nearly frozen. Taxpayers are shelling out $700 billion — with much more expected — to shore up a tottering financial system. Many banks, including Wachovia, have all but failed and disappeared. Venerable Wall Street ...
Nov 14, 2008
Digital Lightwave finds some light in the third quarter — Tampa Bay Business Journal
Type: Press
Source:
Tampa Bay Business Journal Some new feature enhancements with its network information computers helped push Digital Lightwave Inc. into the black in the third quarter. The Clearwater fiber optic communications network producer reported a profit of $370,000, or zero cents a share, on revenue of $4.1 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a turnaround from the $982,000, or zero cents a share, loss Digital Lightwave reported during the same time period in 2007 on revenue of $2.3 million. International sales were up from $595,000, ...
Aug 22, 2007
Digital Lightwave pays off note to Optel Capital, LLC // Improved financial performance enables Digital Lightwave to repay loan — Business Wire
Type: Press release
Source:
Business Wire CLEARWATER, Fla. — Digital Lightwave, Inc. (OTCBB:DIGL), a leading provider of optical networking test equipment and technology, today announced that on August 13, 2007, it repaid to Optel Capital, LLC the principal amount of $225,000 plus accrued interest that Digital Lightwave borrowed from Optel on May 11, 2007. "Over the last year, we have broadened our product offerings, increased our marketing efforts and restructured the company," said Ted Myers, President and CEO. "These efforts have yielded improved financial results. We are ...
Jun 4, 2007
Easy Money — Forbes
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nathan Vardi Source:
Forbes As the U.S. housing market sinks, billions and billions are still going into risky mortgages. Who's minding the bank? Bryan Zwan, entrepreneur and prominent donor to the Church of Scientology, is now dealing in collateralized debt obligations. CDOs have helped fuel the boom in U.S. housing and are backed by junk bonds, leveraged loans, asset-backed securities (like mortgages), credit default swaps–and who knows what else. Zwan's particular group, Forge ABS of Tampa, Florida, intends to invest half the $1.5 billion it ...
Aug 4, 2006
Former tech star settles into more modest digs — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kris Hundley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Nasdaq once raved about Digital Lightwave, whose stock hit $150. Its shares now sell for about 25 cents. For lease: 92,000 square feet of Class A office space in a three-story building. Atrium. Marble floors. And terrific exposure just south of Clearwater's Bayside Bridge. Former tenant: a once-high-flying tech star now in more modest digs in a nearby office park. Digital Lightwave Inc., one of Nasdaq's most sizzling stocks in 1999, has left the building that epitomized its promise when it ...
Jun 2, 2002
Separating belief and business — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Deborah O'Neil Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Home is a pair of waterfront mansions valued at $3.8-million on a gated Belleair island. His ride to work is a sleek Mercedes S600. Retail: $100,000. He has a $6.6-million getaway in Aspen, Colo. He's refurbishing two New York City office buildings he bought for $41-million. Bryan Zwan has become wealthy since founding Digital Lightwave 12 years ago. Last fall, he joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. Zwan, 54, exudes the friendliness, ...
Jun 2, 2002
The CEO and his church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Deborah O'Neil ,
Jeff Harrington Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Months of interviews and thousands of pages of court papers show the effect that influential church members had on a Clearwater company that was a darling of the dot-com boom. It was New Year's Eve 1997 when Digital Lightwave's chief, Bryan Zwan, made his biggest deal: a $9-million contract for his signature product, a 10-pound device that tests telephone lines. At 5:30 p.m., Zwan phoned his production staff and gave them a tall order: Ship the 308 units right away. It ...
Dec 12, 2000
Taking a big gamble going online — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Sinclair Source:
New Zealand Herald When Allan McConnell decided to go online, the 68-year-old Ngaruawahia pensioner had no idea he was, quite literally, taking a gamble.
Retiring after a lifetime on the land, and encouraged by his net-savvy sons Nicholas, 23, and David, 21, he and his wife Julia took a computer course at Ngaruawahia High School. Suddenly, he was at the "bleeding-edge."
And just a few weeks later, the blood began to flow ...
NeoPets is an enchanting website - a community of virtual pet ...
Feb 1, 1998
Scientology in Clearwater: digging in / Scientology in Clearwater — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) She is one of an estimated 3,300 Scientologists who have migrated to Clearwater in the 1990s, the most dramatic period of growth for the church during its 22 years in Clearwater. In addition, the church has said it is "deadly serious" about its plans for the year 2000, which include tripling the size of its Clearwater staff to more than 3,500; launching a local Scientology "university" that would accommodate more than 10,000 students a week; and having "Clearwater known as the ...
The Bryan and June Zwan Foundation, Inc.: Form 990 filings
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