SEC manipulation enforcement actions

This library records 1844 market manipulation enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These are the SEC actions our ingest has classified as involving a manipulation technique. Actions that do not allege manipulation are outside this library's scope and are not recorded, so this is not a complete mirror of SEC enforcement.

Actions: 100
Total penalties: $51.2m
Median penalty: $155k
Largest: $20m
Criminal parallel: 41%

Action	Agency	Filed	Technique	Penalty	Status
SEC v. Mark D. Hanf and Hoai-Nam Chu Phan (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-09-04	Ponzi Schemes	—	settled
SEC v. Trijya Vakil and Neeraj Visen (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-09-04	Insider Trading	$109k	settled
SEC v. Corey Ortiz (free riding and parking, 2026)	SEC	2026-09-03	Free Riding And Parking , Matched Orders	—	judgment
SEC v. David T. Gilchrist, Christopher Aaron Novinger and Rebecca Novinger (2026)	SEC	2026-09-01		—	filed
SEC v. Mordechai Haim Ferder, Simba IL Holdings LLC and others (2026)	SEC	2026-09-01		—	filed
SEC v. Mayur Baviskar (free riding and parking, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-26	Free Riding And Parking	$50k	settled
SEC v. Brian Keasberry (paid stock promotion, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-21	Paid Stock Promotion	$37.5k	judgment
SEC v. Gavin Wolfe and others (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-21	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Jesse R. Mitchell (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-21	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Andrew Spaventa and others (boiler rooms, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-17	Boiler Rooms	—	filed
SEC v. Leor Moshe, Jacob Goldman, Isaac Odes (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-13	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Benjamin Tesfaye (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-11	Insider Trading	$18.7k	settled
SEC v. Goliath Ventures, Inc. and Christopher A. Delgado (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-11	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Frank M. Cerisano Jr. (spoofing, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-10	Spoofing	$335k	settled
SEC v. Gotbit Consulting LLC a/k/a Gotbit Hedge Fund and Fedor Kedrov (paid crypto market making, 2026)	SEC	2026-08-03	Paid Crypto Market Making , Wash Trading	—	settled
SEC v. Aras Investment Business Group S.A.P.I. de C.V. and others (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-07-24	Ponzi Schemes	$449k	judgment
SEC v. Jamal (“Jimmy”) Chammout and others (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-07-17	Insider Trading	$776k	filed
SEC v. Michael J. Forster (pump and dump, 2026)	SEC	2026-07-15	Pump And Dump	—	judgment
SEC v. Robert Yedid, Andrew Kaufman, and Mark Jacobs (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-07-10	Insider Trading	—	settled
SEC v. Weiguo Zhai (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-07-09	Insider Trading	—	settled
SEC v. NanoBit Limited, et al. (2026)	SEC	2026-06-29		$4.8m	judgment
SEC v. Mingran Wang (spoofing, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-25	Spoofing	—	settled
SEC v. Casey Muggleston (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-24	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Sanders Family Office and others (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-24	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Justin Jennings and Vortex Strategies LLC (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-23	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Bruce Cameron Conway (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-16	Insider Trading	$161k	settled
SEC v. Gerard Ryan (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-15	Insider Trading	—	judgment
SEC v. Rakesh Ahuja (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-15	Insider Trading	$65.4k	settled
SEC v. Santos Kidd (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-12	Ponzi Schemes	$285k	judgment
SEC v. JianQing Li (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-06-05	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Nathan Fuller (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-05-29	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Nipun Kumar Jami (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-05-22	Insider Trading	$659k	settled
SEC v. Oskar Elmgart and Raymond Leibman (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-05-18	Insider Trading	$93.6k	settled
SEC v. Robert Newell and Black Hawk Funding, Inc. (2026)	SEC	2026-05-14		$668k	judgment
SEC v. Douglas P. Farr (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-05-07	Insider Trading	$35.2k	settled
SEC v. Nicolo Nourafchan and others (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-05-07	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Christopher Flagg, Daquan Lloyd and Travis Treusch (free riding and parking, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-30	Free Riding And Parking , Matched Orders	—	judgment
SEC v. Jai Sondhi (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-29	Insider Trading	$55k	settled
SEC v. Terrence Chalk (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-27	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Voyager Pacific Capital Management, LLC, Roger David Hardcastle and others (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-21	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Weizheng Zeng (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-20	Insider Trading	$69k	settled
SEC v. Sudheesh Nambiar (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-17	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Geoffrey Allen Wall (pump and dump, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-09	Pump And Dump	—	judgment
SEC v. Caroline J. Campbell (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-06	Insider Trading	$157k	settled
SEC v. Michael Smith and Douglas Joshua Dalton (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-04-01	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Brent David Willis (2026)	SEC	2026-03-31		$175k	judgment
SEC v. Brent Cranmer and Daniel McCormick (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-30	Insider Trading	$50k	judgment
SEC v. Ronald Smith (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-30	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Titanium Capital LLC and Henry Abdo (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-30	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-27	Insider Trading	$50k	judgment
SEC v. Kevan Sadigh (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-23	Insider Trading	—	judgment
SEC v. Bin Hao and Qidian LLC (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-17	Ponzi Schemes	$236k	judgment
SEC v. Paul W. Jorgensen (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-17	Insider Trading	—	settled
SEC v. Canaccord Genuity LLC (suspicious activity reporting, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-06		$20m	settled
SEC v. Justin Sun, Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., Rainberry, Inc., and DeAndre Cortez Way (wash trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-05	Wash Trading	$10m	settled
SEC v. Zachary Miller (unregistered distributions, 2026)	SEC	2026-03-05	Unregistered Distributions	—	settled
SEC v. Joel Castellanos (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-24	Ponzi Schemes	$150k	judgment
SEC v. Joseph C. Lewis, Carolyn W. Carter, Patrick J. O’Connor, and Bryan L. Waugh (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-24	Insider Trading	$1.9m	judgment
SEC v. Martin Tuncaydin (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-13	Insider Trading	$27.2k	settled
SEC v. Epic Capital Wealth Advisors, LLC (2026)	SEC	2026-02-11		—	judgment
SEC v. Gerald Shvartsman and others (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-05	Insider Trading	—	judgment
SEC v. Marat Likhtenstein (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-05	Ponzi Schemes	—	settled
SEC v. Ryan Squillante (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-05	Insider Trading	—	judgment
SEC v. Brett Rosen and others (social media ramps, 2026)	SEC	2026-02-04	Social Media Ramps	—	filed
SEC v. Kevin A. Van de Grift (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-30	Insider Trading	$298k	judgment
SEC v. Satish Appalakutty and others (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-29	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Mark A. Miller, Saeid Jaberian and Christopher J. Rajkaran (pump and dump, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-27	Pump And Dump	—	judgment
SEC v. Brian J. Suthoff (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-26	Insider Trading	$19.7k	settled
SEC v. Mohit Verma (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-21	Insider Trading	$41k	settled
SEC v. Song Yuan (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-21	Insider Trading	$65.6k	settled
SEC v. Hong (John) Wang and Precision Clinical Consulting, LLC (insider trading, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-15	Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. Bernardo Mendia-Alcaraz and Toltec Capital LLC (ponzi schemes, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-06	Ponzi Schemes	$2.2m	judgment
SEC v. Muhammad Saad Shoukat and others (fake press releases, 2026)	SEC	2026-01-06	Fake Press Releases , Insider Trading	—	filed
SEC v. David J. Bradford and Gerardo L. Linarducci (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-30	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Bryan Scott McMillan (insider trading, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-23	Insider Trading	$122k	judgment
SEC v. David Hudzik (unregistered distributions, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-23	Unregistered Distributions	$70k	judgment
SEC v. George John Drazenovic (pump and dump, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-19	Pump And Dump	$236k	settled
SEC v. Mina Tadrus (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-17	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Artur Khachatryan (spoofing, 2025)	SEC	2025-12-16	Spoofing	$112k	settled
SEC v. Virtu Financial, Inc. and Virtu Americas LLC (2025)	SEC	2025-12-03		$2.5m	judgment
SEC v. Solomon Lichtenstein (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-26	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. M Holdings Securities, Inc. (customer information safeguards, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-25		$325k	settled
SEC v. Linh Thuy Le and Trong Hoang Luu (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-19	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Marco G. Santarelli (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-19	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Anthony Viggiano, CPA (insider trading, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-18	Insider Trading	—	judgment
SEC v. Cyrus P. Naderi (free riding and parking, 2025)	SEC	2025-11-18	Free Riding And Parking	$40k	judgment
SEC v. Agridime, LLC, Jed Wood, and Joshua Link (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-30	Ponzi Schemes	$3.3m	judgment
SEC v. Taino Adrian Lopez, Alexander Farhang Mehr, and Maya Rose Burkenroad (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-25	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Dmitrii Yevgenyevich Kushnarev (hijacked account ramping, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-24	Hijacked Account Ramping	—	filed
SEC v. Arthur P. Pizzello. Jr. and Robert Quattrocchi (insider trading, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-23	Insider Trading	$153k	judgment
SEC v. Aaron O'Brian Freeman (free riding and parking, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-22	Free Riding And Parking	—	filed
SEC v. Pathyam Patel (2025)	SEC	2025-09-22		—	settled
SEC v. Justin R. Kimbrough and Prosperity Consultants, LLC (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-17	Ponzi Schemes	—	judgment
SEC v. Allen C. Giltman (fake certificate-of-deposit fraud, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-12		—	judgment
SEC v. Henry Paul Regan, Jr. (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-09	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Arsalan Rawjani and others (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-08	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed
SEC v. Austin D. Ellison-Meade (2025)	SEC	2025-09-05		—	judgment
SEC v. Calvin Guess and others (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-05	Ponzi Schemes	$236k	judgment
SEC v. Ryan Squillante (insider trading, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-05	Insider Trading	—	settled
SEC v. Daryl F. Heller and others (ponzi schemes, 2025)	SEC	2025-09-03	Ponzi Schemes	—	filed