SEC v. Traci J. Anderson, Timothy W. Carnahan and CYIOS Corporation (2015)

Judgment entered

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In December 2015 an SEC administrative law judge found CYIOS Corporation and its chief executive Timothy Carnahan liable for periodic-reporting, certification and Securities Act failures, ordering $37,500 disgorgement and penalties of $375,000 and $75,000, and dismissed the case against accountant Traci Anderson.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$450k

Disgorgement

$37.5k

Prejudgment interest

—

Total relief

$488k

Alleged gain

—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

An SEC administrative law judge issued this initial decision on December 21, 2015, after a proceeding begun in February 2015.

The judge found that CYIOS violated, and Carnahan caused violations of, the periodic-reporting rules, that Carnahan breached the certification and internal-control rules, and that CYIOS violated Section 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act, while finding no violation of Section 17(a)(2). The decision reverses an earlier ruling and dismisses the charge that Anderson, an accountant, worked for CYIOS while barred by the PCAOB, because applying the issuer bar would be impermissibly retroactive. CYIOS became public through a 2005 reverse merger, which is only background; the conduct is not a reverse-merger scheme, so the technique tag is removed.

CYIOS was ordered to disgorge $37,500 with interest and to pay a $375,000 penalty, and Carnahan a $75,000 penalty, a combined $450,000. The record also listed officer-and-director and registration bars that the decision does not impose, and they are cleared. The decision was open to review.

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Timeline

1. 2015-12-21 Initial decision

Primary documents

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• Initial decision (ID-930)
• Order instituting proceedings
• Finality order

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