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To: David T. Groves who wrote (3684)	6/17/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: John T. Hardee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3693

I'm personally glad to see this. If word of this gets around, maybe people will clean up their act and think twice before they cross the line on message boards. Bottom line is anyone can be identified. Think about it..." ""AHT Corporation Identifies Individuals Surreptitiously Posting Misleading and Abusive Messages On Yahoo! Message Board TARRYTOWN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999--AHT Corporation (Nasdaq: AHTC - news) announced today it has received evidence as to the identities of individuals responsible for several hundred abusive and often sexually vulgar postings on the Yahoo! Message Board regarding the Company, its officers, directors, and stockholders. Information subpoenaed from Yahoo! appears to indicate that Ed Bukstel and David Bukstel, Esq., posing under numerous aliases, have been waging an ongoing campaign of misinformation in what appears to be an attempt on their part to influence the outcome of two court cases in their favor by suppressing the price of AHT's stock. Ed Bukstel and David Bukstel, Esq., are the Chairman and Secretary, respectively, of a shell corporation named Bukstel and Halfpenny,Incorporated (B&H). The subpoenaed Yahoo! records appear to indicate that in over 300 postings on the Yahoo! Message Board, both Ed Bukstel and his brother, David Bukstel, a licensed attorney, have engaged, under the guise of being concerned stockholders, in a systematic pattern of unethical and fraudulent postings. These records show that one of the tactics employed by the Bukstel brothers has been to post messages under one or more aliases and to respond to such postings using one or more different aliases. The Bukstel brothers are involved in two previously disclosed court actions against AHT: one, as the sole plaintiffs in a rescission action which seeks the reversal of AHT's 1997 acquisition of B&H's assets and, the other, as putative members of a proposed class action in connection with the Company's stock price decline in 1998. The Company has brought these postings to the attention of the Judge presiding over the rescission action. ''Clearly, what we have uncovered is a manipulative, abusive and unethical use of the Internet medium. This is a high-tech method of utilizing low-rent tactics,'' said Eddy Friedfeld, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of AHT Corporation. ''These virulent postings tend to depress the price of AHT's stock and to create an environment to dupe and mislead our sockholders. Some of the Yahoo! postings have engendered fear among certain employees and their families. No company or its employees and their families should be subjected to this type of abuse. We plan to take all steps legally available to us to stop those who resort to posting misinformation and threats on the Internet while hiding behind false identities.'' Jon Edelson, MD, Chairman, CEO and President of AHT Corporation, stressed, ''These individuals are acting contrary to the best interests of our Company and our stockholders. We will not tolerate such actions from these or any other individuals. We are working hard to build a healthcare e-commerce business and do not intend to let individuals who propagate false information about our Company stand in the way of creating value for our customers and our stockholders.'' "