SEC v. Pathyam Patel (2025)

Settled

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In September 2025 the SEC announced a settlement with Pathyam Patel. The complaint alleges that Patel induced at least 15 people to invest over $430,000 with false claims of SEC registration and guaranteed principal, then spent most of it on personal expenses and Ponzi-like payments. He consented to a judgment subject to court approval.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency	SEC
Release number	LR-26406
Date filed	2025-09-22
Date resolved	2025-09-22
Court	U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
Status	settled
Criminal parallel	No
Defendants	Pathyam Patel (individual)
Cited as charged or alleged	Advisers Act s.206 ; Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ; Securities Act s.17(a) (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques

What was ordered

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

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What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on September 22, 2025 as release LR-26406. The complaint alleges that Patel induced at least 15 people to invest over $430,000 with false claims of SEC registration and guaranteed principal, then spent most of it on personal expenses and Ponzi-like payments. He consented to a judgment subject to court approval.

This library does not tag the matter as a Ponzi scheme: on a source check, the document mentions Ponzi-like payments only in passing, or as part of another party's scheme, and the charges are about something else. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

Timeline

2025-09-22 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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SEC litigation release

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.