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EDGAR filing fraud enforcement actions

This library records 10 enforcement actions tagged edgar filing fraud. EDGAR filing fraud is submitting a false document through the SEC's official filing system, exploiting the authority of the system of record to move a share price before the issuer can correct it.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the edgar filing fraud technique page.

Actions
10
Total penalties
$1.5m
Median penalty
$765k
Largest
$1.5m
Criminal parallel
70%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Lee Simmons (price manipulation, 2022) SEC 2022-08-19 — filed
SEC v. PTG Capital Partners, Ltd. (sham tender offers, 2020) SEC 2020-03-11 $1.5m judgment
SEC v. Mark E. Burns (price manipulation, 2019) SEC 2019-08-12 $60k judgment
SEC v. Mark E. Burns, Robert W. Murray (price manipulation, 2018) SEC 2018-07-17 — settled
SEC v. Nauman A. Aly (sham tender offers, 2018) SEC 2018-03-28 — unknown
SEC v. Robert W. Murray (sham tender offers, 2018) SEC 2018-03-22 — unknown
SEC v. Robert W. Murray (sham tender offers, 2017) SEC 2017-11-09 — filed
SEC v. Robert W. Murray (price manipulation, 2017) SEC 2017-05-19 — unknown
SEC v. PTG Capital Partners LTD, et al. (sham tender offers, 2016) SEC 2016-03-11 — filed
SEC v. PTG Capital Partners LTD, et al. (sham tender offers, 2015) SEC 2015-07-10 — filed