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Digital Broadcast Corporation Permitted to Amend Complaint to Allege $200 Million Damages Against Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.



    Digital Broadcast Corporation, a low cost/high quality provider of
    digital wireless television programming under the trade name AirCable
    America, announced today that it has been granted leave of court to
    amend its complaint to allege $200 million in damages against
    Miami-based securities firm, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. and others. The
    amended complaint, which seeks $150 million in compensatory damages
    and $50 million in punitive damages, alleges fraud, breach of
    fiduciary duty, and breach of contract in connection with a failed
    private placement of stock. Multiple motions to dismiss the complaint
    have been denied. The case is pending in the Supreme Court of the
    State of New York, County of New York, before Justice Richard B. Lowe
    III.