Replies to post #17642 on Sharing Knowledge in Smallcaps

[Alydyr]

OK, I just got home from a weekend retreat. I know the name Wasserman from somewhere. I'll tear in later tonight.

As for your comments on Fastow...I've felt the way you do now for many years. Everyone is crooked, unless proven otherwise. I've lost some professional friends with this thinking, but I've been rewarded in many other ways.

[Alydyr]

Wasserman founded a venture cap firm by the name of First Lawrence Capital Corp. Below is a paragraph from the Jan 1999 SEC filing by a company called Interactive Flight Technologies.

The Company has entered into a consulting agreement with First Lawrence
Capital Corp. (First Lawrence) to perform various financial advisory services
related to ongoing business development and management. The managing director of
First Lawrence is also a director of the Company. After the date of the
independent auditors' report, the Company retained, on a full time basis as
President and Chief Operating Officer, the services of the managing director of
First Lawrence effective December 12, 1998. Accordingly, the Company will enter
into an employment contract with such individual. During the year ended October
31, 1998, the Company paid $11,846 under the First Lawrence consulting
agreement. The Company executed a consulting agreement with the Whitestone
Group, LLC, a shareholder of First Lawrence. Pursuant to the agreement, the
Company will pay $250,000 for consulting services received during fiscal 1998.

[zeptepi]

Brian A. Wasserman
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Mr. Wasserman is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Newtek Business Services, Inc. Prior to joining Newtek Business Services, Mr. Wasserman was the general partner of four private venture capital limited partnerships with very diverse public and private investments. Additionally, Mr. Wasserman acted as chief financial officer of a New York Stock Exchange and NASD member firm, which is an investment banking and merchant banking firm which specializes in public offerings and private placements of early stage and emerging new companies and was a manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Wasserman is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.