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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016 Complaint contained no statements sworn under penalties of perjury and was ultimately withdrawn with prejudice by then-Plaintiff Hoffenberg.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

bonds to investors ("TFC Bonds"). 43. Moreover, Defendant Epstein, directly and indirectly, created, or caused to have created, TFC subsidiaries, the THRFC Bond Funds, which were a series of corporate entities that issued the TFC Bonds. The TFC Bonds were sold pursuant to five (5) separate private placement memor

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

of collection receivables which Towers did not own, but only collected as agent and took a fee, and of certain healthcare receivables purchased by the THRFC Bond Funds. Receivables not actually owned by Towers could not properly collateralize the Notes. 9 EFTA00795992 Case 1:18-cv-07580-JPO Document 7-1 Filed

ralize the TFC Bonds. 44. Defendant Epstein and Hoffenberg deliberately misrepresented how investor funds w

bonds to investors ("TFC Bonds"). 43. Moreover, Defendant Epstein, directly and indirectly, created, or caused to have created, TFC subsidiaries, the THRFC Bond Funds, which were a series of corporate entities that issued the TFC Bonds. The TFC Bonds were sold pursuant to five (5) separate private placement memor

investors and SEC filings. Further, Epstein and Hoffenberg created phony receivables, then included those i

rther, Epstein and Hoffenberg created phony receivables, then included those items in reports designed to misrepresent the true financial picture of the THRFC Bond Funds. Despite Defendant Epstein's central role in this now widespread, massive Ponzi scheme, his actions were taken on behalf of TFC — Hoffenberg's comp