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| | Complaint: John F. Turant, Jr. |
 | | Evergreen Investment Group is a Nevada limited partnership established by Turant in June 1999, and operated by Turant and Luciano out of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. |
 | | Evergreen is an unregistered purported hedge fund that never had a class of securities registered with the Commission, nor were any offerings of its securities the subject of a registration statement filed or in effect with the Commission. |
 | | Defendants JTI LP and Evergreen are issuers who hold themselves out as being engaged primarily, or propose to be engaged primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting, or trading in securities, and are therefore investment companies pursuant to Section 3 of the Investment Company Act, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-3. |
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