SEC v. Jun Ying (insider trading, 2018)

Judgment entered

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In March 2018 the SEC charged former Equifax executive Jun Ying with insider trading ahead of the company's September 2017 data breach announcement. A consent final judgment entered June 28, 2019 enjoins him, bars him from serving as an officer or director for ten years and orders $125,636 in disgorgement and interest, offset by a criminal forfeiture.

The record

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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What is alleged to have happened

The SEC alleged that Ying, a former Equifax executive, exercised all his vested stock options and sold the shares ahead of the announcement that the company had been hacked, avoiding losses of more than $117,000.

Outcome: SEC release LR-24541 (July 18, 2019) says the Northern District of Georgia entered a final judgment on consent on June 28, 2019 that permanently enjoins Ying from antifraud violations, orders disgorgement and prejudgment interest totaling $125,636, offset by the $117,117 forfeiture he had paid in the parallel criminal case, and prohibits him from serving as an officer or director of a public company for ten years. It says he pleaded guilty in the criminal case and was sentenced to four months in prison, and that the SEC's litigation is concluded. The release gives no separate civil penalty or split of the $125,636.

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

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Timeline

1. 2018-03-22 Litigation release published
2. 2019-06-28 Final judgment on consent entered against Ying

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• SEC litigation release LR-24541 (final judgment)

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