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Time line: Invention too good to be true

By LEONORA LaPETER ANTON
Published July 1, 2007

April 1996: Brent Kovar and his father, Glenn, form Satellite Access Systems Inc., a Nevada corporation.

September 1997: The Kovars tell investors SAS has either signed or is considering contracts worth $2.3-million a month.

April 1999: SAS, $4-million in debt, is acquired by Corsaire Inc., a provider of security services with offices in Fort Lauderdale and California.

September 1999: The Kovars refuse to turn over the technology to SAS' new managers to test its authenticity. They say Corsaire failed to pay off all of SAS' debt and provide agreed-upon shares. Brent, Glenn and Joy Kovar are fired from SAS.

October 1999: SAS sues all three Kovars.

2000: Brent Kovar founds Sky Way Global LLC, a high-speed broadband wireless service company.

Spring 2002: A newsletter to investors says five members went to Washington and "initiated high-level contacts."

2002: The Kovars form another company, Sky Way Aircraft Inc.

November 2002: A business plan says the management team was invited to dinner with President Bush. The plan quotes Bush as saying, "We need you."

July 1, 2003: Brent Kovar is issued a patent for a "digital data transmission utilizing vector coordinates within a hyperbola model."

2003: Kovar and others obtain control of a public company that they name SkyWay Communications Holding Corp. They market security to the airline industry.

June 2004: The company obtains a 1966 DC-9 airplane to demonstrate the technology.

December 2004: A dozen plaintiffs from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia sue the company. The case is settled in 2006 for an undisclosed amount.

June 2005: SkyWay Communications files for bankruptcy.

December 2005: Nineteen people from Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio sue Sky Way Global and Brent, Glenn and Joy Kovar. The plaintiffs say they invested $775, 000 based on false and misleading statements.

Feb. 15, 2007: A Pinellas County jury orders all three Kovars to pay SAS $36-million, among the largest verdicts in Pinellas history.

May 23, 2007: A federal bankruptcy judge approves a reorganization of SkyWay Communications as World Capita Communications Inc.

March 28, 2007: A judge approved a default judgment ordering Sky Way Global to pay $1.1-million to the investors from Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois.

June 14, 2007: World Capita files a complaint in bankruptcy court against Brent and Joy Kovar alleging fraudulent transfers of money and unexplained expenses.

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