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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Page 1 of 12 5577615_1 Patrick J. Reilly, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 6103 Leslie M. Nino, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 11672 Holland & Hart LLP 9555 Hillwood Drive, Second Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89134 Tel: (702) 669-4600 Fax: (702) 669-4650 [email protected] Attorneys for Relief Defendants Kim C. Tucker and Park 269 LLC UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, vs. AMG SERVICES, INC., an Oklahoma Tribal Entity; RED CEDAR SERVICES, INC., an Oklahoma Tribal Entity, also dba 500 FastCash; SFS, INC., a Nebraska Tribal Entity, also dba OneClickCash; TRIBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, an Oklahoma Tribal Entity, also dba Ameriloan, UnitedCashLoans, USFastCash, and Miami Nation Enterprises; AMG CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; LEVEL 5 MOTORSPORTS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; LEADFLASH CONSULTING, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability company; PARTNER WEEKLY, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; BLACK CREEK CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Nevada Corporation; BROADMOOR CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; THE MUIR LAW FIRM, LLC, a Kansas Limited Liability Company; SCOTT A. TUCKER, in his individual and corporate capacity; BLAINE A. TUCKER, in his individual and corporate capacity; TIMOTHY J. MUIR, in his individual and corporate capacity; DON E. BRADY, in his individual and corporate capacity; and TROY L. LITTLEAXE, in his individual and corporate Case No. : 2:12-cv-00536-GMN-VCF RELIEF DEFENDANTS KIM C. TUCKER AND PARK 269 LLC’S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF TRADE COMMISSIONS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF (DOC. NO. 4) (Oral Argument Requested) Case 2:12-cv-00536-GMN -VCF Document 62 Filed 05/04/12 Page 1 of 12

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Patrick J. Reilly, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 6103 Leslie M. Nino, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 11672 Holland & Hart LLP 9555 Hillwood Drive, Second Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89134 Tel: (702) 669-4600 Fax: (702) 669-4650 [email protected] Attorneys for Relief Defendants Kim C. Tucker and Park 269 LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF NEVADA

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, vs. AMG SERVICES, INC., an Oklahoma Tribal Entity; RED CEDAR SERVICES, INC., an Oklahoma Tribal Entity, also dba 500 FastCash; SFS, INC., a Nebraska Tribal Entity, also dba OneClickCash; TRIBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, an Oklahoma Tribal Entity, also dba Ameriloan, UnitedCashLoans, USFastCash, and Miami Nation Enterprises; AMG CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; LEVEL 5 MOTORSPORTS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; LEADFLASH CONSULTING, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability company; PARTNER WEEKLY, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; BLACK CREEK CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Nevada Corporation; BROADMOOR CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; THE MUIR LAW FIRM, LLC, a Kansas Limited Liability Company; SCOTT A. TUCKER, in his individual and corporate capacity; BLAINE A. TUCKER, in his individual and corporate capacity; TIMOTHY J. MUIR, in his individual and corporate capacity; DON E. BRADY, in his individual and corporate capacity; and TROY L. LITTLEAXE, in his individual and corporate

Case No. : 2:12-cv-00536-GMN-VCF RELIEF DEFENDANTS KIM C. TUCKER AND PARK 269 LLC’S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF TRADE COMMISSIONS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF (DOC. NO. 4) (Oral Argument Requested)

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capacity, Defendants, and PARK 269 LLC, a Kansas Limited Liability Company; and KIM C. TUCKER, in her individual and corporate capacity, Relief Defendants.

Relief Defendants Kim C. Tucker (“Ms. Tucker”) and Park 269, LLC (“Park 269”), by

and through their attorneys, Holland and Hart, LLP, hereby oppose Plaintiff Federal Trade

Commission’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction and Other Equitable Relief [Doc. No. 4] and

Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Motion for Preliminary

Injunction and Other Equitable Relief [Doc. No. 5] (the “Motion”). This Opposition is made

pursuant to LR 7-2 and is based on the pleadings on file herein and the points and authorities

below.

I. INTRODUCTION

The FTC has named Ms. Tucker and Park 269 as Relief Defendants, seeking

disgorgement of monies that they have allegedly received, directly or indirectly, from certain of

the defendants named in this action. The FTC does not allege that Ms. Tucker or Park 269

actually engaged in any deceptive or unlawful lending or debt collection practice, or that they

collaborated with or otherwise controlled the Tribal Lending Entities (defined as Red Cedar

Services, Inc., Tribal Financial Services Corporation, and SFS, Inc.) so as to subject them to any

liability. Rather, the FTC, based on nothing more than hollow conclusions, speculation and

innuendo, claims that Ms. Tucker and Park 269 received or are in possession of “ill-gotten gains”

from the alleged deceptive or unlawful practices of the Tribal Lending Entities named in this

action. In turn, based on equally deficient and unsupported allegations in its Motion, the FTC

asks this Court to force Ms. Tucker and Park 269, by way of a mandatory injunction, to provide

overreaching, irrelevant, burdensome, and private financial information.

The FTC’s Motion is without merit and should be flatly denied. First, it is beyond

dispute that disgorgement against a relief defendant will not lie if the FTC does not establish the

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lenders engaged in a fraudulent, deceptive or unlawful practice in the first instance. As set forth

in the Tribal Defendants’ Opposition Brief, which is incorporated here, the FTC cannot establish

any likelihood of success on the merits of its request for an injunction because it cannot

demonstrate that any of the Tribal Lending Entities actually violated the FTC Act, the TILA, or

the EFTA. Without an unlawful practice, there can be no “ill-gotten gains” linked to such

practice from which any claim for disgorgement would flow.

Even assuming arguendo that the FTC could establish some violation of any of these

provisions, the monies that the FTC asks the Relief Defendants to disgorge did not come from

the Tribal Lending Entities1; those distributions came from two non-lenders—Black Creek

Capital Corporation (“Black Creek”) and AMG Services, Inc. (“AMG”).2

Finally, the FTC has not properly alleged or submitted competent evidence showing that

the disbursements of funds made to the Relief Defendants were in fact “ill-gotten gains,” or that

the Relief Defendants have no legitimate claim to those monies, as required for disgorgement.

For all of these reasons, the FTC is unlikely to prevail on the merits as to the claims asserted Ms.

Tucker and Park 269 and its Motion for Preliminary Injunction should be summarily denied.

Accordingly, to

prevail on its claim of disgorgement, the FTC must establish that each of these non-lender

entities is jointly and severally liable for the alleged lending practices as part of a “common

enterprise” with the Tribal Lending Entities. As set forth in the Tucker Defendants’ Opposition

to the Motion for Preliminary Injunction, which is incorporated here, the FTC has not properly

alleged, let alone established with any competent evidence, that these non-lenders were part of

some common enterprise that directed or controlled the lending activities from which any

liability as a “collaborating defendant” could arise.

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1 Although the FTC’s Motion vaguely references distributions made to Ms. Tucker from Broadmoor Capital Partners, LLC (“Broadmoor”) (Motion, p. 35), the FTC does not identify any such distributions, nor does Budich’s Declaration show any payments to Ms. Tucker from Broadmoor. (Motion, PX22, p. 618). 2 The FTC’s Motion erroneously claims that AMG is a lender. As set forth in the Tribal Defendants’ Opposition, AMG does not make any short-term, online loans. Rather, AMG is a shared services provider that provides employee staffing and related services to the Tribal Lending Entities. AMG is also tribally-owned.

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II. ARGUMENT

A. STANDARD FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

“A preliminary injunction is an extraordinary remedy never awarded as of right.” Winter

v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 24 (2008). “An injunction is a matter of

equitable discretion; it does not follow from success on the merits as a matter of course.” Id. at

32 (quoting Romero–Barcelo, 456 U.S. 305, 313 (1982) (“[A] federal judge sitting as chancellor

is not mechanically obligated to grant an injunction for every violation of law”)). In order to

obtain injunctive relief, the FTC must make “a proper showing that weighing the equities and

considering the Commission’s likelihood of ultimate success, such action would be in the public

interest.” 15 U.S.C. § 53(b)(2). This is consistent with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, which

requires evidence be “admissible at trial.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(a)(2); see also Winter, 555 U.S. at

20-22 (plaintiff is required to submit admissible evidence supporting his contention that he is

entitled to the relief he seeks). As the United States Supreme Court has stated, “a preliminary

injunction is an extraordinary and drastic remedy, one that should not be granted unless the

movant, by a clear showing, carries the burden of persuasion.” Mazurek v. Armstrong, 520 U.S.

968, 973 (1997) (internal quotation omitted).

B. THE FTC FAILS TO ESTABLISH ANY OF THE PREREQUISITES FOR

INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, AND ITS MOTION SHOULD BE DENIED.

In order to even reach a claim of disgorgement against Ms. Tucker or Park 269, the FTC

must first establish (1) the Lending Defendants engaged in an unlawful or deceptive practices;

(2) AMG and/or Black Creek were part of a “common enterprise” with the Tribal Lending

Entities to engage in such alleged unlawful or deceptive practices; (3) monies distributed to Ms.

Tucker or Park 269 from AMG and/or Black Creek were directly derived from unlawful or

deceptive lending practices and thus constitute “ill-gotten gains”; and (4) Ms. Tucker and Park

269 have no legitimate claim to the monies paid. The FTC has not met and cannot meet any of

these levels of proof necessary to require Ms. Tucker or Park 269 to disgorge any funds, let alone

subject them to a mandatory injunction.

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1. As Set Forth In The Tribal Lending Defendants’ Opposition, The FTC Cannot

Establish That It Is Entitled To A Preliminary Injunction

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The FTC is unlikely to prevail on the merits of its claims against the Tribal Lending

Defendants in the first instance, which automatically precludes the claims against the Relief

Defendants sought here. Ms. Tucker and Park 269 incorporate the facts, evidence and arguments

contained in the Tribal Lending Defendants’ Opposition to the FTC’s Motion for Preliminary

Injunction as though fully set forth here. As set forth in that briefing, the FTC’ Motion for

Preliminary Injunction should be denied because the FTC cannot establish that an unlawful or

deceptive practice occurred, that irreparable harm will occur if an injunction is not issued, or that

the balance of the equities weighs in favor of injunctive relief. These same arguments apply with

equal force to all claims asserted against Ms. Tucker and Park 269 here.

2. As Set Forth In The Tucker Defendants’ Opposition, The FTC Cannot Establish The Non-Lenders are Part of a Common Enterprise with the Tribal Lending Entities Required for Collaborating Defendant Liability

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Setting aside the foregoing, the FTC is not entitled to disgorgement of funds from Ms.

Tucker or Park 269, or to an injunction forcing them to disclose irrelevant, burdensome and

private financial information, because the FTC cannot trace these disbursements to the lending

activities. Ms. Tucker and Park 269 did not receive disbursements from any of the Tribal

Lending Entities—they received disbursements from AMG and Black Creek. Thus, the FTC, as

a second step in its burden of proof, must establish that Black Creek and AMG are part of a

common enterprise involving the lending practices, and are therefore, jointly and severally liable

for the alleged conduct of the Tribal Lending Entities. The FTC has not done so. Ms. Tucker

and Park 269 incorporate the facts, evidence and arguments contained in the Tucker Defendants’

Opposition to the FTC’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction as though fully set forth here. As the

Tucker Defendants demonstrate, the FTC has not properly alleged, let alone submitted

admissible evidence showing that the non-lenders were part of any common enterprise with the

Tribal Lending Entities involving the alleged unlawful activity upon which individual or joint

and several liability could arise. On this basis alone, the FTC’s Motion for Preliminary

Injunction must be denied as to Ms. Tucker and Park 269.

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As set forth in detail in the Tucker Defendants’ Opposition, the FTC (1) offers only

vague and legally insignificant evidence in support of its request for injunctive relief; (2) fails to

plead its claims against defendants with particularity as required by Federal Rule of Civil

Procedure 9(b); and (3) improperly lumps all defendants together and fails to show how each

defendant is individually liable for the conduct alleged. As such, the FTC’s claims against the

non-lenders fail as a matter of law and cannot support the FTC’s request for preliminary

injunction here. See, e.g., Chavez-Gallegos v. First Magnus Fin. Corp., 2011 WL 6402182, *1

(D. Nev. Dec. 20, 2011) (denying preliminary injunction where complaint only offered

conclusory allegations that failed to show plausible claims for relief regarding alleged lending

violations). Because the FTC cannot show that Black Creek or AMG are liable for the alleged

unlawful or deceptive practices of the Tribal Lending Entities, monies paid to Relief Defendants

from Black Creek or AMG are not “ill-gotten gains” that are required to be disgorged.

3.

The FTC is Unlikely to Prevail on the Merits for Disgorgement from the Relief Defendants Because Monies Disbursed were not Ill-Gotten Gains.

Even though the FTC cannot establish that the Tribal Lending Entities actually engaged

in some unlawful or deceptive practice, and cannot demonstrate that non-lenders Black Creek or

AMG were part of a common enterprise with the Tribal Lending Entities involving such

practices, there are additional reasons why the FTC cannot prevail on the merits of its claims

against the Relief Defendants.

A court may order disgorgement from a relief defendant who has engaged in no

wrongdoing only upon a finding that the relief defendant “(1) is in possession of ill-gotten funds,

and (2) lacks a legitimate claim to those funds.” Commodity Futures Trading Com'n v. Walsh,

618 F.3d 218, 225 (2d Cir. 2010). If a relief defendant establishes a legitimate claim to the funds

in his or her possession, they are not subject to disgorgement. Id. at 226–27. The ill-gotten gains

must be linked to the unlawful practices of the liable defendants. “A relief defendant can show

a legitimate claim to the funds received by showing that some services were performed in

consideration for the monies.” FTC v. Bronson Partners, LLC, 674 F. Supp.2d 373, 392 (D.

Conn. 2009). The burden rests with the Commission to show that the funds in the possession of

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a relief defendant are ill-gotten. FTC v. Direct Mktg. Concepts, 569 F. Supp.2d 285, 312 (D.

Mass. 2008). The FTC has not made and cannot make such a showing here.

In particular, the FTC seeks disgorgement from Ms. Tucker of $844,263 in monies she

received from Black Creek, as well as $4,133,599 in monies Ms. Tucker jointly received with

her husband Scott Tucker from Black Creek. (Motion, p. 13). The FTC baldly claims that Ms.

Tucker has no legitimate claim to these assets, solely because they are traceable to funds

obtained as part of the Lender’s deceptive and unlawful lending practices. (Id). The FTC offers

no competent evidence to support this conclusion. The FTC offers only hearsay, unauthenticated

and foundationally devoid conclusions in the Declaration of Victoria Budich,3

When one carefully looks at Ms. Budich’s Declaration, and the summary of the Black

Creek bank account, it is readily apparent that the vast majority of the monies flowing in and out

of that account have no connection whatsoever to the Tribal Lending Entities, or their lending

activities. Indeed, of the approximately $40 million deposited into that account over a 3 year

period, only $4,363,083 can be traced as coming from the “Lending Defendants” as erroneously

defined by the FTC’s pleadings (AMG, Red Cedar Services, Inc., MTE Financial Services, Inc.,

SFS, Inc., and TFS Corp.). (Motion, PX22, p. 616-17, ¶81). Thus, any so-called “ill-gotten

gains” that could even arguably be traced to the Black Creek bank account are only a small

fraction of the monies actually flowing through that account from non-lending activities.

Because approximately $36 million clearly cannot be linked to the Tribal Lending Entities, or

their lending activities, the FTC cannot simply assume that monies paid to Ms. Tucker from that

account were in fact connected to, or derived from, any unlawful lending practices. Thus, the

FTC has not met its burden of showing that Ms. Tucker received any “ill-gotten gains,” or that

who has purported

to have summarized the monies flowing in and out of Black Creek based on bank statements and

other financial information obtained through the FTC’s investigation. That so-called “evidence”,

however, actually demonstrates the fatal flaws in the FTC’s claims.

3 Relief Defendants hereby join in the Tucker Defendants’ Motion to Strike, as well as in the separate Motion to Strike filed by defendants Timothy J. Muir and the Muir Law Firm, LLC. For the reasons set forth therein, the FTC’s pleadings should be stricken, or alternatively, the Declaration of Victoria Budich and the references to the financial documents therein should be stricken.

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she was not legitimately entitled to the disbursements made. Absent such showing, the FTC is

not entitled to the injunctive or equitable relief it seeks against the Relief Defendants, and its

Motion should be denied.

C. THE PROPOSED INJUNCTION IS OVERLY BROAD AND IS NOTHING

MORE THAN AN IMPROPER FISHING EXPEDITION

Preliminary injunctions “must be narrowly tailored … to remedy only the specific harms

shown by the Plaintiffs, rather than ‘to enjoin all possible breaches of the law.’” Price v. City of

Stockton, 390 F.3d 1105, 1117 (9th Cir. 2004) (citation omitted); see also Califano v. Yamasaki,

442 U.S. 682, 702 (1979) (“[I]njunctive relief should be no more burdensome to the defendant

than necessary to provide complete relief to the plaintiffs.”) The FTC’s proposed Order as to the

Relief Defendants does not meet these standards and should be rejected. The FTC seeks to use

preliminary injunctive relief as a means to conduct a fishing expedition by way of overly broad,

irrelevant and harassing disclosure requirements that have no bearing on the claims against the

Relief Defendants here.

The FTC concedes in its Motion that the only distributions as to the Relief Defendants at

issue here are those made from AMG and Black Creek. Those distributions have been

specifically identified, and the FTC has gone to great lengths to list out various payments made

by or on behalf of Relief Defendants from the AMG and Black Creek bank accounts. The FTC

does not claim that other distributions have been made or that other monies or assets should be

disgorged. Yet, without any explanation or justification, the FTC asks this Court to force Ms.

Tucker and Park 269 to complete onerous and overreaching financial statements and provide

myriad documents that seek information that is not even arguably relevant to these narrowly-

defined distributions.

For example, the FTC wants Ms. Tucker to provide the names and social security

numbers of her children; a detailed breakdown of all income received from any source and all

expenses for an undefined period; all lawsuits involving Ms. Tucker or her spouse for an

undefined period; all life insurance policies held by Ms. Tucker or her spouse; a complete

description of all assets, including personal property, real estate, vehicles, and securities owned

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by either Ms. Tucker or her spouse; a complete description of all liabilities of either Ms. Tucker

or her spouse, going so far as to require a listing of credit card balances. (Proposed Order,

Attachment 1). Similarly, notwithstanding that it already has much of the information that it

seeks, the FTC wants this Court to force Park 269 and Ms. Tucker to identify all of Park 269’s

current and former members, managers, accountants, and attorneys over the past three years, as

well as provide detailed descriptions of its business transactions, its assets and its liabilities.

(Proposed Order, Attachment 2).

The FTC’s “preliminary” relief request as to these defendants is nothing more than

burdensome and intrusive full accountings. The FTC’s Proposed Order is premature to say the

least. As set forth above, the FTC cannot establish any right to recover the relief it seeks from

Ms. Tucker and Park 269 and cannot prevail on the merits of its claims. Therefore, no injunctive

relief is proper. The proper time to seek relevant and narrowly-tailored financial information

from Relief Defendants, if at all, is in connection with routine discovery that may be commenced

consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure if and only if this Court has determined that

the FTC has stated a claim against defendants upon which relief can be granted. The FTC offers

no justification for its extraordinary remedy of “expedited discovery,” let alone the draconian

fishing expedition that it seeks to employ against admittedly non-culpable parties here. “Judges

are trusted to prevent ‘fishing expeditions’ or an undirected rummaging through bank books and

records for evidence of some unknown wrongdoing.” Cuomo v. Clearing House Ass'n, L.L.C.,

557 U.S. 519, 129 S. Ct. 2710, 2717 (2009).

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III. CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, the Relief Defendants respectfully request that the Court deny

the FTC’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction against them, and award them such further relief to

which they may be entitled

DATED this 4th day of May, 2012.

_______/s/ Patrick J. ReillyPatrick J. Reilly, Esq.

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Leslie M. Nino, Esq. Holland & Hart LLP 9555 Hillwood Drive, Second Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89134 Attorneys for Relief Defendants Kim C. Tucker and Park 269 LLC

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on the 4th day of May, 2012, a true and correct copy of the foregoing

RELIEF DEFENDANTS KIM C. TUCKER AND PARK 269 LLC’S OPPOSITION TO

PLAINTIFF TRADE COMMISSIONS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF (DOC. NO. 4) AND PLAINTIFF’S

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF (DOC. NO. 5) was

served on counsel through the Court’s electronic service system as follows:

Daniel G. Bodgen, Esq.

Electronic Service:

United States Attorney District of Nevada Blaine T. Welsh, Esq. Assistant United States Attorney 333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 5000 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Tel: (702) 388-6336 Fax: (702) 388-6787 Email: [email protected] Willard K. Tom, Esq. General Counsel Nikhil Singhvi, Esq. Julie G. Bush, Esq. Jason D. Schall, Esq. Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mailstop NJ-3168 Washington, D.C. 20580 Tel: (202) 326-3480 (Singhvi) Fax: (202) 326-3629 Email: [email protected]

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Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission

Von S. Heinz, Esq. Leif Reid, Esq. Darren J. Lemieux Lewis & Roca, LLP 3993 Howard Hughes Parkway Suite 600 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 Tel: (702) 949-8200 Fax: (702) 949-8351 Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Defendants AMG Capital Management, LL C; Level 5 Motorsports, LLC; LeadFlash Consulting LLC; Blackcreek Capital Corporation; Broadmoor Capital Partners LLC; Scott A. Tucker; Blaine A. Tucker

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David J. Merrill, Esq. 10161 Park Run Drive, suite 150 Las Vegas, Nevada 89145 Tel: (702) 566-1935 Fax: (702) 924-0787 Email:P [email protected] Attorneys for Defendants AMG Services, Inc.; Red Cedar Services, Inc. dba 500FastCash; SFS, Inc. dba OneCl.ickCash; Tribal Financial Services, dba Ameriloan, UnitedCashnLoans, USFastCash, Miami Nation Enterprises

Jay Young, Esq. Marquis Aurbach Coffing 10001 Park Run Drive Las Vegas, Nevada 89145 Tel:P (702) 382-0711 Fax: (702) 856-8900 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant Robert D. Campbell

L. Christopher Rose, Esq. Jolley Urga Wirth Woodbury & Standish 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway Sixteenth Floor Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 Tel: (702) 699-7500 Fax: (702) 699-7555 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Timothy J. Muir and The Muir Law Firm, LLC

Andrew P. Gordon, Esq. McDonald Carano & Wilson LLP 2300 West Sahara Avenue, Suite 1000 Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 Tel: (702) 873-4100 Fax: (702) 8739966 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Partner Weekly, LLC

Paul C. Ray, Esq. Paul C. Ray, Chtd. 8670 West Cheyenne Avenue, Suite 120 Las Vegas, Nevada 89129 Tel: (702) 823-2292 Fax: (702) 823-2384 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Troy L. Littleaxe

Greg Brower, Esq. Brian R. Reeve, Esq. Snell & Wilmer 3883 Howard Hughes Parkway Suite 1100 Las Vegas, Nevada 89169 Tel: (702) 784-5200 Fax: (702) 784-5252 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Don E. Brady

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Nathan F. Garrett, Esq. Whitney Paige Strack, Esq. Graves Bartle Marcus & Garrett, LLC 1100 Main Street, suite 2700 Kansas City, MO 64105 Tel: (816) 256-3181 Fax: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for Don E. Brady

An employee of Holland & Hart LLP /s/ Susann Thompson

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