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...page civil complaint. William F. Buckley Jr., 55, while profiting as a shareholder in the family enterprises, was not an officer of any of the involved corporations. The erudite TV interviewer, columnist and editor of the National Review had been accused of civil fraud by the SEC in a wholly separate action in 1979 and, without conceding any culpability, had agreed not to act as an officer or director of any public corporation for five years. Also unnamed was James Buckley, 58, the former New York Senator, now Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. Although he had been active...
...brother of William and James, is one of three Buckley business associates cited in the complaint. John has devoted his career to carrying on the enterprises that grew out of the lucrative Venezuelan oil ventures of the family patriarch, William Sr., who died in 1958. Also cited by the SEC were Benjamin Heath, 67, widower of one of the elder Buckley's daughters, and C. Dean Reasoner, a Washington lawyer who had long helped manage the Buckley businesses...
This arrangement has been profitable. Between 1974 and 1978, Catawba collected $6,106,283 in fees and $6.7 million in royalties from the six affiliates. The SEC said that Catawba could not always produce records that would justify the high fees it charged. Still, when the bills were presented to the controlled companies, they were readily paid. In many cases, the Catawba officials sending the bills also served as officers or directors of the companies receiving them and thus were authorizing payments for themselves...
...SEC contended that some $525,000 in fees collected by Catawba from 1972 to 1978 actually was paid for time that Catawba officers and staff had spent on Catawba's financial transactions rather than on managing the other companies. Moreover, said the SEC, another $570,000 in such fees was spent on the upkeep of Great Elm, the 46-acre estate in Sharon, Conn., where the Buckley children grew up. Another $500 a month in fees was spent to help support a family member living in Texas...
...SEC cited numerous examples of alleged deception of public shareholders. It noted that United Canso Oil & Gas Ltd., which was controlled by the Buckley family, in 1971 acquired a 20% interest in a license to explore for oil and gas in the British North Sea. The Canso board sold its share in 1975 for $50 million plus $7 million in previous expenses. Canso's board then appointed two of its directors to make an "independent" study of what Canso owed Catawba in royalties on the oil It would have produced if It had not sold its rights...