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NICATV, NITCO, and the FCC continued for some time and was not
resolved until after Rhys' July 1989 sale of NICATV.
Additionally, in the March 24, 1988, complaint NITCO and Rhys
filed in the constitutional challenge action discussed infra,
NITCO alleged that Rhys did not receive compensation from NITCO
and had no formal responsibilities at NITCO.
On December 20, 1988, NITCO paid $22,646 to Rhys. In early
1989, NITCO purchased individual memberships at a local country
club on behalf of several of its employees and on behalf of Rhys.
NITCO paid an $1,800 initiation fee to obtain Rhys' club
membership. At this point, Rhys had not yet sold NICATV and was
not an employee of NITCO.
Blue Mountain Cellular Telephone, Inc., FiberComm, Inc., and
BMCT, L.P.
In 1988, FiberComm, Inc. (FiberComm), a corporation solely
owned by Kyle, applied to the FCC for a license to provide
cellular telephone services in the rural statistical number three
area in Oregon. On October 20, 1989, the FCC issued FiberComm a
cellular telephone license to the area. FiberComm previously had
obtained a financing commitment from an unrelated party to help
it construct its Oregon cellular telephone system. Although
FiberComm's cellular telephone system began operating in January
1991, and as of March 31, 1991, FiberComm had 105 subscribers to
the system's cellular telephone services, further construction
work with respect to the system was needed. In April 1991,
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