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n benefit or for expenditures, totalling over $3 million, unrelated to the insurance companies, -including tuition costs and credit ca'd bills for Hoffenberg's stepdaughter; the payment of investment consultant fees for Towers; the purchase of Emery Air Freight stock; the payment of margin interest; the pa

d.e with a series of Indenture Agreements. The Bonds were sold pursuant to five separate, private placement memoranda prepared at the direction of Hoffonberg and his co-conspiratdis. The private placement memoranda got.* each issuance of the Bonds'represented that the proceeds from the sales of the Bond

016 Complaint contained no statements sworn under penalties of perjury and was ultimately withdrawn with prejudice by then-Plaintiff Hoffenberg. See Steven J. Hoffenberg v. Jeftey E, Epstein, et. al., Case No. 16-03989 (RJS) (S.D.N.Y May 27, 2016). 15 EFTA00809705 Case 1:18-cv-07580-JPO Document 7 Filed 08/21/18

d Defendants' deceptive, unlawful and unfair practices. While Plaintiffs and the Class realized the depth and breadth of the Ponzi scheme following Hoffenberg's conviction and the several related civil lawsuits, Defendants' involvement was purposefully concealed and not revealed until Hoffenberg's 2 In Un

0-JPO Document 7-2 Filed 08/21/18 Page 1 of 8 Exhibit B EFTA00809733 Case 1:18-cv-07580-JPO Document 7-2 Filed 08/21/18 Page 2 of 8 AFFIDAVIT OF STEVEN J. HOFFENBERG STATE OF NEW YORK ) ss.: COUNTY OF NEW YORK STEVEN J. HOFFENBERG, being duly sworn, deposes, and says that: 1. I am a not a party in the above caption

red a controlling interest in United Diversified Corporation ("UDC"), which conducted business through two Illinois insurance company subsidiaries, Associated Life Insurance Co. ("Associated") and United Fired Insurance Co. ("United Fire"). 26. Epstein was the architect of the plan to secure the approval from Illinois stat

n benefit or for expenditures, totalling over $3 million, unrelatud to the insurance companies, :including tuition costs and credit cawd bills for Hoffenberg's stepdaughter; the payment of investment consultant fees for Towers; the purchase of Emery Air Freight stock; the payment of margin interest; the pa

3 Case 1:18-cv-07580-JPO Document 7-1 Filed 08/21/18 Page 2 of 16 STATES DISTRICT COURT RN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK STATES OF AMERICA, - against - STEVEN HOFFENSERG Defendant. sweet, D. J. araistnianallnlanti 2A-CL.-2131B2B1. Sal-Sx-.-32.1-111Wal Defendant Steven Hoffenberg ("Hoffenberg") pled guilty on April 2

d 08/21/18 Page 3 of 16 Tv U.S.C. § 3013, a special assessment of $250.00, $50.00 per count, is mandatory. The Offense Conduct Until April 1993, Hoffenberg was the chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board of Towers Financial Corporation ("Towers"). In 1987, Towers acquired a contro

s"). In 1987, Towers acquired a controlling interest in United Diversified Corporation ("UDC"), which conducted business through its subsidiaries, Associated Life Insurance Co. ("Associated") and United Fire Insurance Co. ("United Fire"). Hoffenberg later became chairman of the boardi of UDC, Associated and United Fire.

al Corporation, ("TFC") a dissolved Nevada corporation which had its principal place of business in New York, NY at all relevant times during which Steven Hoffenberg ("Hoffenberg") was an officer, director and controlled a majority of its stock. 2. Epstein, a co-conspirator in connection with the fraudulent Pon

ntly acquired through fraudulent Ponzi schemes described herein and without disclosure of the Epstein Fraudulent Activities. 7. In or around 1997, Hoffenberg was convicted for a Ponzi scheme in connection with securities frauds committed at TFC (the "TFC Ponzi Fraud"), which resulted in approximately fiv

1988 through TFC's acquisition of a controlling interest in United Diversified Corporation ("UDC") and, as a result, UDC's two ailing subsidiaries, Associated Life Insurance Co. and United Fire Insurance Co., (the "Subsidiaries"). Hoffenberg, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2394, at *2. 22. Epstein's Insurance Ponzi Fraud scheme inc

te. 27. Thereafter, in or around November 1987, Hoffenberg and Epstein used Associated and United bonds as

red a controlling interest in United Diversified Corporation ("UDC"), which conducted business through two Illinois insurance company subsidiaries, Associated Life Insurance Co. ("Associated") and United Fired Insurance Co. ("United Fire"). 26. Epstein was the architect of the plan to secure the approval from Illinois stat