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This action was dismissed. The allegations described below were not established. This page is kept online so that the outcome is visible alongside the original filing.

SEC v. Dohan + Company CPA and others (wash trading, 2011)

Dismissed

Machine-extracted, pending human review. The structured fields on this page were parsed automatically from the regulator's own release, linked below. Read the primary document before relying on any figure here, and tell us if something is wrong.

In 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought an action, since dismissed, against Dohan + Company CPA and 4 others, alleging conduct this library classifies as wash trading. The release does not state a monetary figure that we were able to extract.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number 3-13997
Date filed 2011-06-27
Date resolved 2011-06-27
Court SEC administrative law judge
Status dismissed
Criminal parallel No
Defendants Dohan + Company CPA (entity) ; Steven H. Dohan, CPA (individual) ; Nancy L. Brown, CPA (individual) ; and Erez Bahar (individual) ; CA (individual)
Techniques Wash 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
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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 27, 2011 as release 3-13997. The respondents named are Dohan + Company CPA and 4 others (4 individuals, 1 entity). The action was brought in the SEC administrative law judge.

This library tags the matter as wash trading, based on the conduct the regulator describes. Each tag links to a page explaining how that technique works, what statute it engages, and what penalties comparable actions have attracted. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

The action was dismissed. We keep dismissed matters in the library precisely so that the outcome is visible alongside the original allegation.

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. 2011-06-27 Initial decision

Primary documents

Everything on this page derives from the documents below. Where our summary and the primary document disagree, the primary document is right.

The linked release is a work of the United States government and is not subject to copyright. Our summary and narrative above are our own writing.

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SEC v. Canaccord Genuity LLC (marking the close, 2026) SEC 2026-03-06 Marking The Close , Marking The Open +2 — settled
SEC v. Justin Sun, Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., Rainberry, Inc., and DeAndre Cortez Way (paid stock promotion, 2026) SEC 2026-03-05 Paid Stock Promotion , Wash Trading $10m judgment
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2026) CFTC 2026-02-25 Insider Trading , Wash Trading — settled
CFTC v. Gregg Smith (spoofing, 2026) CFTC 2026-01-16 Spoofing , Wash Trading $200k judgment
Victorian man sentenced in market manipulation case (ASIC, 2025) ASIC 2025-12-12 Insider Trading , Price Manipulation +1 — judgment

Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.