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SEC v. Matthew C. Woodard (2018)

Judgment entered

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In 2018 the SEC settled an administrative proceeding against Matthew C. Woodard, a former registered representative, imposing remedial sanctions based on a 2018 Connecticut order that permanently barred him.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number 3-18581
Date filed 2018-07-10
Date resolved 2018-07-10
Status judgment
Asset class bonds, equities
Criminal parallel No
Bars imposed registration bar
Defendants Matthew C. Woodard (individual)
Techniques

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

On July 10, 2018 the SEC accepted a settlement with Matthew C. Woodard, a former registered representative at ProEquities, Inc. The order is a follow-on to a March 2018 Connecticut Department of Banking consent order barring him from the securities business there. That order alleged that in 2014 and 2015 he sold unregistered securities in a business he owned and took investor loans of $325,000, part of which he used personally.

The SEC does not itself find a Section 5 violation. The unregistered sales are an allegation in the state order recited as the basis for the bar, so the record carries no technique tag.

This library does not assign a technique tag to the matter, because no technique page in the current taxonomy describes the conduct the document records.

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Timeline

  1. 2018-07-10 Administrative proceeding instituted (findings)

Primary documents

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