SEC v. Jehu Hand and Antonio Katz (pump and dump, 2015)

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The SEC's December 2015 Greenway Technology pump-and-dump case against attorney Jehu Hand and promoter Antonio Katz ended with a consent final judgment against Hand on 29 July 2019 in the District of Massachusetts. It bars him from penny stock offerings; Katz's earlier judgment (14 September 2018) orders $9,900 in disgorgement, deemed satisfied by restitution. Hand was convicted at trial in May 2018 and sentenced to 66 months in prison.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

$9.9k

Prejudgment interest

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Total relief

$9.9k

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 December 11, 2015 as release LR-23424. The respondents named are Jehu Hand and Antonio Katz (2 individuals, 0 entities).

The complaint alleges backdated notes and false legal opinion letters used to issue unrestricted Greenway stock, with misleading promotion and undisclosed coordinated trading. The charges are registration and antifraud provisions; no concealed-payment allegation is made.

This library tags the matter as pump and dump and unregistered distributions, 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: penny stock bar.

The release references a parallel criminal proceeding. Where a criminal case exists, the civil and criminal outcomes are recorded separately, because they resolve on different standards of proof.

Nothing in the regulator's filing has been proven, and the respondents are entitled to the presumption that it has not been. This page will be updated if the matter is resolved, dismissed or withdrawn.

Katz consented to a final judgment on 14 September 2018 that barred him from penny stock offerings, enjoined him and ordered disgorgement of $9,900, deemed satisfied by his criminal restitution order; he had pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 36 months' probation. A jury convicted Hand of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy on 21 May 2018. On 29 July 2019 the court entered a consent final judgment against Hand enjoining him under the antifraud and registration provisions and prohibiting him from penny stock offerings, with no monetary amount stated in the SEC's release. He was sentenced to 66 months in prison with a $1,000,000 fine and $486,953 in restitution. The SEC also suspended him from practising before it in July 2019, a separate administrative step. The stored money is Katz's; the judgment against Hand states none.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary documents linked above. This page summarises the structured record and does not reproduce them.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with 2 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.

• Pump and dump — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.
• Unregistered distributions — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.

Timeline

1. 2015-12-11 Litigation release published
2. 2018-09-14 Consent final judgment entered against Katz (D. Mass.)
3. 2019-07-29 Consent final judgment entered against Hand (D. Mass.)

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• SEC litigation release 24566 (final judgment against Hand)
• SEC litigation release 24299 (final judgment against Katz)

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.

Same matter

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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.

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