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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1967 C 67 Gab Roy where Dress: the S E.G is the $4,000,000? T he SEC has claimed in a civil suit that some $4,000,000 of the funds of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc. has been "misappropriated" and charges "fraud." Any reasonable man, reading the scare headlines, might assume that somebody walked off with the Company's assets. That is untrue-the assets are in the Company and are growing. But you have to dig down into the fine print of the SEC allegations to find that out. Here is the truth about the SEC's charges, most of which are a rehash of charges the SEC "forgot" to say have been already discredited by a New York Supreme Court Referee. And here are the facts about how SEC harrassment has "protected" Fifth Avenue shareholders out of well over a half million dollars of their assets. The $4,000,000 "The evidence indicates that in 1965 the larger fee lost the Company's suit for fair We operate, among other things, two companies Three transactions which the Commission is credit of the Corporation was exhausted compensation covering intangible assets active right here in Metropolitan New York. One questioning represent about $4,000,000. These and that attempts had been made to bor- seized, while Saxe, Bacon & Bolan won that is the Westchester Street Transportation Com. are assets, properly carried on the Company's row money from factors so that the assist- suit on appeal and received an additional pany, providing bus service in Westchester books. They belong to the shareholders of Fifth ance by Krock was both necessary and judgment of $3,000,000; is now fighting to County: the other is V.I.P. Metered Transporta- Avenue Coach. THE SEC KNOWS THAT. r reasonable terms as it was necessary have that amount raised to $24,000,000. to raise funds for the purpose of paying tion Co., whose cars are a familiar sight to many And they are earning income which also be- Thomas A. Bolan, a Same, Bacon & Bolan New Yorkers. damage claims arising out of accidents longs to the shareholders. THE SEC KNOWS partner who is president and chairman of which had occurred (while Fifth Avenue Fifth Coach The SEC's "Protection"