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SEC v. SeeThruEquity, LLC, Ajay Tandon, and Amit Tandon (newsletter scalping, 2022)

Judgment entered

Machine-extracted, pending human review. The structured fields on this page were parsed automatically from the regulator's own release, linked below. Read the primary document before relying on any figure here, and tell us if something is wrong.

In 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a judgment against SeeThruEquity, LLC, Ajay Tandon, and Amit Tandon, alleging conduct this library classifies as newsletter scalping. The release records a civil penalty of $250,000.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-25321
Date filed 2022-01-28
Date resolved 2022-01-28
Court U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Status judgment
Asset class equities
Criminal parallel No
Bars imposed officer-and-director bar
Defendants SeeThruEquity, LLC, Ajay Tandon, (entity) ; Amit Tandon (individual)
Techniques Newsletter scalping

What was ordered

Civil penalty
$250k
Disgorgement
Prejudgment interest
Total relief
$250k
Alleged gain

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 January 28, 2022 as release LR-25321. The respondents named are SeeThruEquity, LLC, Ajay Tandon, and Amit Tandon (1 individual, 1 entity). The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.

This library tags the matter as newsletter scalping, 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.

The relief recorded in our data is a civil monetary penalty of $250,000. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

Non-monetary relief recorded: officer-and-director bar.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique 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.

Timeline

  1. 2022-01-28 Litigation release published

Primary documents

Everything on this page derives from the documents below. Where our summary and the primary document disagree, the primary document is right.

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.

Other actions in the library sharing at least one technique tag with this one.

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. Brian Robert Sodi, et al. (newsletter scalping, 2023) SEC 2023-03-14 Newsletter Scalping , Pump And Dump judgment
SEC v. Harmel S. Rayat, RenovaCare, Inc., Jatinder Bhogal, Jeetenderjit Singh Sidhu, and Sharon Fleming (newsletter scalping, 2022) SEC 2022-08-29 Newsletter Scalping unknown
SEC v. John David McAfee and Jimmy Gale Watson, Jr. (newsletter scalping, 2022) SEC 2022-07-15 Newsletter Scalping , Paid Stock Promotion judgment
SEC v. Michael M. Beck, a/k/a @BigMoneyMike6, and Relief Defendant Helen P. Robinson (newsletter scalping, 2022) SEC 2022-02-07 Newsletter Scalping filed
SEC v. Brian Robert Sodi, CPA (newsletter scalping, 2020) SEC 2020-04-17 Newsletter Scalping , Unregistered Distributions judgment
SEC v. Brian Robert Sodi, et al. (newsletter scalping, 2019) SEC 2019-09-19 Newsletter Scalping , Paid Stock Promotion +1 settled

Record added September 8, 2026. submit a correction.