The firms indicted include Sears, Roebuck, Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores and Westar Energy.

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Around the same time Anderson was soliciting investments for Westar, he bought a restaurant in his wife's name.

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They include Alliant, Allegheny, Energy East, Empire District, OGE Energy, Pepco, DPL, Great Plains, Westar and Pinnacle West.

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Westar Energy Inc shares are currently trading down about 1% on the day.

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Anderson flooded investors with enthusiastic e-mails, says the SEC, claiming Westar was drilling a well in a "huge play" in Railroad Valley, Nev.

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The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Westar Energy Inc, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.

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"Westar did acquire the ownership of Truestar, " Offill contends.

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To keep investor suspicions at bay, says the SEC, Anderson first wrote that a planned public offering had been delayed--then decided to turn Westar into a public company via a reverse merger with Terax.

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The complaint alleges that she registered with the SEC to issue 500, 000 shares of Terax to Westar but, instead, distributed those shares to Camden and a trust held in the name of Anderson's wife, Jennie Santamaria.

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