TransMedia Group To BP Amoco: 'Stop Sending Subpoenas To Our Publicists!' BOCA RATON, Fla., September 30/PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group, a public relations firm representing nine independent Amoco station operators battling to hold on to their stations, said today it has received a second subpoena from lawyers for BP Amoco. "Why are they bothering us with these subpoenas?" the firm's chairman Thomas J. Madden asks. "Our publicists have nothing material to add to their litigation with these nine service station operators. Since we're just the messengers here, I can only interpret this as an attempt to disrupt us or scare us." So far, lawyers for BP Amoco have requested to see every scrap of communications between TransMedia and its client, the group of nine, including contracts and even copies of checks by which the operators have paid monthly fees and expenses for PR services. When TransMedia received its first subpoena the week before last, Madden contacted his professional association, the Public Relations Society of America, inquiring if this could be a scare tactic to get his PR firm to back off from representing the nine dissident independent Amoco station operators. Madden said the first subpoena arrived in the midst of a media campaign it's waging on behalf of the group of nine, including two orderly protest demonstrations. Each of the operators have filed lawsuits against BP Amoco, charging the oil company deceived them into investing in the stations from which the company now seeks to evict them. Last week, TransMedia's Director of Broadcast Media Michelle Rosen received the second subpoena issued to a TransMedia employee. She is scheduled to appear at a deposition early next month. "We're only doing our job serving a client and we won't be intimidated by anyone," Madden said. In the first two-hour deposition, Madden said an attorney for BP Amoco demanded to know who came up with the term "David and Goliath," which is how TransMedia had characterized the battle between its client and the giant oil company in a press release. Madden said TransMedia did not originate the term. "It's in The Bible." Contact: Michelle Rosen (561) 750-9800, ext. 14 MRosen@transmediagroup.com