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SEC v. Jason A. Wallace (boiler rooms, 2017)

Judgment entered

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In 2017, the SEC obtained a final judgment against former boiler room operator Jason A. Wallace in the Central District of California, ordering $512,049 in combined disgorgement and prejudgment interest and a civil penalty of $434,887, with a penny stock bar and injunctions.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-24016
Date filed 2017-12-18
Date resolved 2017-12-18
Court U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Status judgment
Asset class equities
Criminal parallel No
Defendants Jason A. Wallace (individual)
Cited as charged or alleged Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ; Exchange Act s.15(a) ; Exchange Act s.9(a)(2) ; Securities Act s.17(a) ; Securities Act s.5 (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques Boiler rooms

What was ordered

Civil penalty
$435k
Disgorgement
$512k
Prejudgment interest
—
Total relief
$947k
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 December 18, 2017 as litigation release 24016. The defendant named is Jason A. Wallace. The final judgment of December 15, 2017, entered after a May 2017 default, enjoins him from violating Securities Act Sections 5 and 17(a) and Exchange Act Sections 9(a)(2), 10(b) and 15(a), bars him from penny stock offerings, and orders $512,048.80 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest combined and a $434,887.07 civil penalty. The record previously omitted the penalty.

This library tags the matter as boiler rooms, based on the conduct the document describes. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

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 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. 2017-12-18 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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Same matter

The library links these 2 records because they appear to concern one matter: the same lead defendant, an overlapping technique tag and close filing dates, or a shared court docket or a release that cites the other. Records are listed by date filed.

Date filed Agency Record Status
2016-09-27 SEC SEC v. Jason A. Wallace (boiler rooms, 2016) Judgment entered
2017-12-18 SEC SEC v. Jason A. Wallace (boiler rooms, 2017)(this record) Judgment entered

This grouping is the library's, made by matching names, techniques, dates and citations when the site is built. It is not the regulator's or a court's determination that the records are one case, and it errs towards missing a link rather than making a false one.

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

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. Andrew Spaventa and others (boiler rooms, 2026) SEC 2026-08-17 Boiler Rooms — filed
SEC v. Timothy Page, Trevor Page and others (boiler rooms, 2024) SEC 2024-11-20 Boiler Rooms , Undisclosed Control Blocks $7.7m judgment
SEC v. Mario Gogliormella, Steven Lacaj, and Karim Ibrahim a/k/a/ Chris Hayes (boiler rooms, 2024) SEC 2024-06-12 Boiler Rooms — filed
SEC v. Legend Venture Partners LLC (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-07-11 Boiler Rooms — filed
SEC v. Vuuzle Media Corp., Vuuzle Media Corp. Limited, Ronald Shane Flynn, and Richard Marchitto (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-06-27 Boiler Rooms $25.8m judgment
SEC v. Matthew Nicosia, William Reininger, Fabrizio Di Carlo, and Ronald Touchard (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-04-10 Boiler Rooms $223k judgment

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