B.C. broadcaster has to stay out of U.S. public companies

WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a decision last week against a Vancouver broadcast executive over a public company he was involved in between 1999 and 2002. A U.S. federal court in Nevada entered a final judgment - by consent - against Barry Duggan, an accountant by trade, of Vancouver, British Columbia, in connection with a stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over an adult web site company that occurred between 1999 and 2002, says the press release. Duggan is currently president of Focus Entertainment, which owns Vancouver radio station 94.5 FM The Beat. "The judgment permanently enjoins...