"There are so many customers out there that the vast majority are being grabbed without competition, " says McLaughlin.

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He says McLaughlin also directed him to a broker at Newbridge Securities in Boca Raton, Fla. who could sell the stock for cash.

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"We took on the marketing process itself, " says McLaughlin, who had spent five years as a programmer for Eli Lilly and moonlighted selling his homemade wedding-planner software over the web.

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The company also says McLaughlin has earned nothing.

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The creditor says McLaughlin tried to pay off a debt with common stock in his company, even recommending a Boca Raton, Fla. broker, since sanctioned for penny-stock scams, who could supposedly sell the shares on the open market.

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" Asked for response to this charge, Mr. McLaughlin says it is "a fabrication.

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McLaughlin says he resigned just before it filed for protection and declines to provide details about who controlled Aurora.

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Maeve McLaughlin, MLA, says it is time for positivity.

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"We wanted to make it sound a bit like a Neil Young album, " says O'Brien, who recorded Becoming a Jackal with engineer and co-producer Tommy McLaughlin.

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