SEC v. Steven Metro (insider trading, 2016)

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In 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission reported that Steven Metro, a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett employee, was sentenced to 46 months in prison in the criminal case parallel to its action over a scheme in which he passed deal information through Frank Tamayo to a stockbroker, producing about $5.6 million in profits. The release states no SEC monetary relief against Metro.

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

$5.6m

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 September 14, 2016 as litigation release 23646. The respondent named is Steven Metro (1 individual). Metro, who had pleaded guilty to criminal charges, was sentenced to 46 months' imprisonment for supplying material nonpublic information about more than a dozen pending transactions to Tamayo on napkins and post-it notes at Grand Central Terminal; Tamayo passed it to his stockbroker, Vladimir Eydelman, and the trading produced about $5.6 million in profits. The release notes that Tamayo and Eydelman had already settled with the SEC and records no relief against Metro.

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Timeline

1. 2016-09-14 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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