MORE ON PLUVIA: The following information re PLUVIA was published in the Los Angeles Times April 4, 1999 in an article by Thomas S. Mulligan, Staff Writer (Excerpted from Mulligan's article "So Who Is This 'Steve Pluvia,' Anyway?"):
SEC Obtains Injunction
In 1987, the SEC obtained a permanent injunction against a Steven Keyser, then age 26, accusing him of diverting for his personal use "almost all" of the proceeds of a 1986 stock offering in a Salt Lake City firm called L'Oiseau Bleu (French for "bluebird").
Pluvia, in telephone interviews, denied any involvement in the case and declined even to confirm that he is Keyser. Keyser's Las Vegas telephone number is not published.
Interestingly, however, Pluvia's involvement in the dental laser business coincides with that of the Steven A. Keyser associated in Nevada court and corporate records with a Las Vegas business called Laser Brite Teeth Whitening Center.
Moreover, the same Steven A. Keyser - as identified by Social Security number - was listed in a 1984 tax case in Salt Lake District Court with the identical address given for his father in the SEC stock-registration statement for L'Oiseau Bleu's initial public offering.
Steven Keyser was listed as president of the firm and his father as secretary-treasurer. The "blind pool" offering was intended to raise $200,000 to $400,000 to be used to "engage in the acquisition of business endeavors in one or more industries," according to the registration statement, but it is unclear how much was actually raised.
The federal judge in Utah who issued the injunction against Keyser in November 1987 also entered an order of disgorgement, but payment was waived "after Keyser turned over to L'Oiseau Bleu Corp. all of the corporation's common stock remaining in his possession," the SEC said in a news release at the time. |
