SEC v. Giguiere et al. (undisclosed control blocks, 2024)

Judgment entered

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In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a release announcing it had obtained a monetary judgment against Gannon Giguiere for undisclosed control, selling while promoting and matched trading. This library classifies the conduct as undisclosed control blocks, matched orders and pump and dump. The release records a civil penalty of $875,000, disgorgement of $7,760,416.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$875k

Disgorgement

$7.8m

Prejudgment interest

—

Total relief

$8.6m

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

the Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on June 13, 2024 as release LR-26024. The respondents named are Giguiere et al. (1 individual, 0 entities). The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California.

The release reports a judgment of $7,760,416 in disgorgement, about $2.09 million in interest and a $875,000 penalty against the promoter, for selling stock of an issuer he controlled undisclosed while promoting it and for the matched-trading scheme in a second issuer. It does not allege concealed compensation, so the paid-promotion tag has been replaced.

This library tags the matter as undisclosed control blocks, matched orders and pump and dump, 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 conduct is recorded against equities.

Non-monetary relief recorded: officer-and-director bar, penny stock bar.

The relief recorded in our data is a civil penalty of $875,000, disgorgement of $7,760,416. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

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.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with 3 techniques 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.

• Undisclosed control blocks — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.
• Matched orders — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.
• Pump and dump — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.

Timeline

1. 2024-06-13 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release

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.

Related actions

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.