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SEC v. Casey Muggleston (insider trading, 2026)

Alleged — pending

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In June 2026 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Casey Muggleston, a former Constellation Energy engineering manager, with trading Constellation securities in 2024 on confidential knowledge of 'Project Tetris', the plan to restart the Three Mile Island plant under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft announced September 20, 2024, for alleged profits of about $1.4 million. The complaint seeks an injunction, disgorgement and penalties; an indictment was announced in parallel.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-26573
Date filed 2026-06-24
Court U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
Status filed
Criminal parallel Yes: charged (Casey Muggleston (indictment)), District of Delaware, 2026-06-24
Defendants Casey Muggleston (individual)
Cited as charged or alleged Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques Insider trading

What was ordered

Civil penalty
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Disgorgement
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Prejudgment interest
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Total relief
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Alleged gain
$1.4m

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

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on June 24, 2026 as release LR-26573, filing in the District of Delaware.

The case originated in the Market Abuse Unit's data analysis. The release reports no outcome.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

Checked on 2026-10-04: no outcome found on SEC pages. The SEC litigation-release index, which runs through LR-26664, has no later release naming these defendants.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

Timeline

  1. 2026-06-24 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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Other actions in the library sharing at least one technique tag with this one.

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. Trijya Vakil and Neeraj Visen (insider trading, 2026) SEC 2026-09-04 Insider Trading $109k settled
CFTC v. Gabriel Perez (insider trading, 2026) CFTC 2026-08-28 Insider Trading $65k 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
SEBI v. Arun Kumar Somani and others (insider trading review, Indian Oil Corporation, 2026) SEBI (India) 2026-08-13 Insider Trading — dismissed
SEC v. Benjamin Tesfaye (insider trading, 2026) SEC 2026-08-11 Insider Trading $18.7k settled

Record added September 10, 2026. If this matter has since resolved, been withdrawn or been dismissed, we want to know: submit a correction.