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...late 1980s, when Wall Street was busy churning out Armani-clad traders and chilling the champagne, a small Texas brokerage house was in the midst of a holier mission. Peddling investments in goodwill, AMI Securities sold more than $250 million in bonds on behalf of American churches between 1986 and 1989. But according to a Securities and Exchange Commission suit filed against the firm last week, the bond offering was no blessing to tens of thousands of unsuspecting investors...
...Charging AMI with fraud, the SEC claims that purchasers were duped into believing the bonds were risk-free. The SEC alleges that AMI misrepresented the financial condition of the churches involved, a number of which were so distressed that it was unlikely they'd ever be able to return investments. The suit also claims that AMI guaranteed customers that their money was insured, when in fact the firm had only $2 million to cover more than 100 times that amount in bond sales...
...Deneta Ami Howland...
...Deneta Ami Howland...
...centerpiece of Beebe's empire was AMI, his company based in Shreveport, La., which invested in banks and thrifts, insurance companies, motels and nursing homes. Beebe and his colleagues at one time or another held control of nearly 40 banks and S & Ls, through which they allegedly made insider "back- scratching" loans to finance one another's high-risk moneymaking schemes. Their tower of debt collapsed in 1986, brought down by the energy bust and tenacious federal investigators. Having pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in 1988, Beebe, 61, now washes laundry in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas...