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Renewed Request for Full Information About Control of Stock (October 11, 2005) Copied below is the text of an October 11, 2005 letter to the corporate secretary of Farmer Bros. Co., referring to a statement attributed to a company spokesman in an October 8, 2005 Daily Breeze (Torrance, California) article. The letter notes that the spokesman's reported statement, if true, indicates that the company's March 14, 2005 SEC filings had not included all the relevant information requested by the Forum about who controls the family trusts which hold over a third of the company's stock. Under these circumstances, the secretary is asked to provide the additional information now. Alternatively, if the spokesman's statement is not true, management is asked to issue a corrective statement. The letter is copied to the SEC Enforcement official who had been copied on the previous January 13, 2005 and March 11, 2005 letters addressing the same subject, and who had been responsible for reviewing matters raised in a January 8, 2004 request for investigation and a February 13, 2004 request to require information disclosures. The company's corporate secretary responded in a letter dated October 12 and postmarked October 19, 2005, stating that he believed both the company and the "Farmer Family" were in "full compliance with their disclosure obligations," but also that the quoted statement by the company representative regarding the "Farmer Family Trusts" did not require correction. The corporate secretary's letter did not state his relationship to the "Farmer Family" or to the "Farmer Family Trusts." A scanned copy of the letter can be downloaded from the following link:
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