SEC v. Jeffrey Goldman and Christopher Eikenberry (2018)

Settled

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In September 2018 the SEC sued Jeffrey Goldman and Christopher Eikenberry over an alleged fraud in which Nonko Trading customers got simulated training accounts instead of live ones. On 24 January 2020 the District of New Jersey entered a consent judgment against Goldman, who the SEC then barred from the securities industry; Eikenberry's outcome was not checked.

The record

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Agency	SEC
Release number	LR-24257
Date filed	2018-09-05
Date resolved	2020-01-24
Status	settled
Criminal parallel	Yes: charged (Goldman and Eikenberry)
Bars imposed	industry-wide association bar, penny stock bar, conduct-based injunction
Defendants	Jeffrey Goldman (individual) ; Christopher Eikenberry (individual)
Cited as charged or alleged	Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ; Exchange Act s.15(a) ; Securities Act s.17(a) (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
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What was ordered

Civil penalty: —
Disgorgement: —
Prejudgment interest: —
Total relief: —
Alleged gain: —

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What is alleged to have happened

The SEC announced the complaint on September 5, 2018 (LR-24257). Nonko allegedly kept customer deposits for personal use and paid some customers who wanted out with other customers' money. Both men are charged with fraud and with aiding Nonko's fraud and unregistered broker-dealer activity; the complaint asked for injunctions, disgorgement and penalties.

The record showed the matter as settled; the release reports only filed charges, and the settlements it mentions belong to other Nonko defendants. The Ponzi tag is removed because the fraud described is fake trading accounts, with Ponzi-like payments a minor detail.

An SEC administrative order of January 2020 reports the outcome for Goldman. On 24 January 2020 the District of New Jersey entered a judgment by consent permanently enjoining him from antifraud and unregistered-brokerage violations, and the Commission then barred him, by consent, from association with brokers and advisers and from penny stock offerings. The order does not state any monetary amount, so none is recorded. It does not address co-defendant Eikenberry, whose outcome was not checked, and we did not see the judgment itself.

Timeline

2018-09-05 Litigation release published
2020-01-24 Consent judgment entered enjoining Goldman; SEC bar follows by administrative order

Primary documents

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