The company is listed as a defendant in an investor lawsuit filed in Miami.

But Blair has coughed up $125,000 in one investor lawsuit that said the firm had refused to execute a sale.

To assist in the lobbying effort, the group also turned occasionally to the lawmakers' personal accountants to pitch for greater restrictions on investor lawsuits.

Another one would require some investor lawsuits to be handled by arbitration panels, which are traditionally friendlier to defendants.

Mr. Strafaci could not be reached for comment and has not been the subject of investor lawsuits.

The investor lawsuits charge that the company used the forecasts to mislead investors into buying stock.

And he helped to steer through the House a bill making investor lawsuits more difficult.

The firm is also a defendant in several investor lawsuits.

Under pressure from investor lawsuits, Miniscribe initiated the in-house investigation in March.

Such companies, with their volatile stock prices, are frequent targets of investor lawsuits.