HAL CHORNEY

Harold F. Chorney, also known as "Hal", was the founder and president of C.I.C., Cumberland Investment Corporation, an international tangible investment firm in it's third decade of operation, when both he and his company fell under attack from government agencies. Part of this attack included press releases to impugn Mr. Chorney's character and integrity. C.I.C. was petitioned into bankruptcy when a note was called. Then, "Hal" was convicted of a false statement to a financial institution and sentenced to prison. Mr. Chorney believes the motivation behind targeting him was to gain information about his clients and to neutralize his efforts proposing legislation that may impact a citizen's right to financial privacy.

Mr. Chorney was considered to be an industry innovator, using his lobbying efforts to better protect the consumer investor. According to Public Document/Official Business #44076, on May 19, 1989, the flag of the U. S. was flown over the U. S. Capital at the formal request of Wyche Fowler, Jr. U. S. Senator in honor of Mr. Harold F. Chorney's "National efforts to bring about: Improved laws to better protect the best interest of the American Consumer investor...To strengthen regulatory efforts to safeguard the American consumer investor...and, to cause the financial products and services industry to be more accountable to the American consumer investor."

Mr. Chorney's efforts earned him, his company and his retirement programs the endorsement and praise of prominent Americans including the late Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, who is considered the Father of Retirement Planning in America as author of H.R. 10, the Keogh Plan, and Loren Dunton, originator of the financial planning movement in the U. S. and founder of the Financial Planning College in Colorado, and the National Center for Financial Education. Today, Hal Chorney, TIA, is a highly booked speaker for the financial products and services industry. Hal Chorney is the author of Pie-rats, Those Who Plunder You in Bankruptcy, a book concerning our own institutions, selling out to special interest groups, thus denying American citizens their fundamental birthrights and the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. Hal is also a frequent writer, published in Barron's Financial Weekly, Wealth Magazine, Life Insurance Selling, Financial Services Advisor Magazine, The Inspirator International, the IARFC Register, The Financial Planning Encyclopedia, and other publications.