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Insider trading enforcement actions

This library records 608 enforcement actions tagged insider trading. Insider trading is dealing in securities on material non-public information in breach of a duty of trust or confidence, which exploits a true signal others cannot see rather than injecting a false one into the price.

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 insider trading technique page.

Actions
100
Total penalties
$2bn
Median penalty
$145k
Largest
$1.7bn
Criminal parallel
34%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Robert B. Westbrook (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-27 judgment
SEC v. Bhardwaj et al. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-26 judgment
CFTC v. Texas Associated Person (insider trading, 2024) CFTC 2024-09-25 judgment
SEC v. Eric J. Watson et al. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-24 judgment
SEC v. Philip Markin (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-19 judgment
SEC v. Federico Nannini, Mauro Nannini, Alejandro Thermiotis, and Francisco Tonarely (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-16 filed
SEC v. Dishant Gupta (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-10 settled
SEC v. James M. Phillips (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-09 settled
SEC v. Stephen Forlano (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-09-09 $18.2k settled
SEC v. Shaohua (Michael) Yin, et al. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-30 $39.5m judgment
SEC v. Maggie Chen (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-28 settled
SEC v. Dileep Murthy (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-26 $88k settled
SEC v. Sound Point Capital Management LLP (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-26 settled
SEC v. FlowPoint Partners, LLC and Peter J. DeCaprio (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-21 $145k judgment
SEC v. Robert Del Prete (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-13 judgment
SEC v. Steven D. Targum et al. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-08-08 $86.8k settled
SEC v. Charles Baugh (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-07-30 judgment
SEC v. Sivannarayana Barama (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-07-29 judgment
SEC v. Gene Daniel Levoff (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-07-08 $1.1m unknown
SEC v. Robert J. Schettino (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-25 settled
CFTC v. Trafigura (insider trading, 2024) CFTC 2024-06-17 $55m judgment
SEC v. Daniel Urness (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-10 judgment
SEC v. Anders J. Lindgren (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-06 $682k settled
SEC v. Andre Wong (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-04 unknown
SEC v. Andreas Bechtolsheim (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-03 judgment
SEC v. Gregory P. Manning (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-06-03 judgment
SEC v. Tyler Loudon (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-31 judgment
SEC v. Teresa Perez De Madrid (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-21 settled
SEC v. Frank T. Poerio, Jr. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-10 judgment
SEC v. Gene Daniel Levoff, Esq. (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-08 unknown
SEC v. Steven Masterson (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-06 settled
SEC v. John M. Moretz (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-05-03 settled
SEC v. Sanjay Bhandari, Vinod Singhi, Rakesh Jain (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-30 $73.5k settled
SEC v. Kevin Crotty (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-26 judgment
SEC v. Gil Friedman (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-15 judgment
SEC v. Anthony Manna (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-09 judgment
SEC v. Joseph Young (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-09 settled
SEC v. Michael Sapraicone (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-09 settled
SEC v. Matthew Panuwat (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-08 unknown
SEC v. Senvest Management, LLC (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-04-03 filed
SEC v. Roy M. Cook and others (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-03-12 settled
SEC v. Ishan Wahi et al. (insider listing trading, 2024) SEC 2024-03-11 judgment
SEC v. Hemant Agrawal (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-03-04 settled
SEC v. Tian "Tony" Tian (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-01-22 $72.1k settled
SEC v. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-01-12 unknown
SEC v. Pawan Kumar Passi (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-01-12 settled
SEC v. David Schottenstein, Kris Bortnovsky, Ryan Shapiro, Sakal Capital Management, LLC, and Sakal U.S. Fund, LLC (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-01-11 judgment
SEC v. Gannon Giguiere (insider trading, 2024) SEC 2024-01-03 judgment
SEC v. Dozy Mmobuosi, et al. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-12-18 filed
CFTC v. Freepoint Commodities LLC (insider trading, 2023) CFTC 2023-12-14 $91m judgment
SEC v. Raymond J. Pirrello, Jr., et al. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-12-07 filed
SEC v. Joseph M. Dupont et al. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-11-28 judgment
SEC v. Charter Communications, Inc. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-11-14 settled
CFTC v. HSBC Bank USA (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2023) CFTC 2023-11-07 $1.7bn filed
SEC v. Joseph Conlan (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-10-30 settled
SEC v. Brian Marc Rubin (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-10-17 judgment
SEC v. Anthony Viggiano, Stephen A. Forlano, Christopher Salamone, and Nathan Bleckley (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-28 unknown
SEC v. Marco A Perez, Pedro Perez Jr., and Olivia Perez Durbin (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-28 settled
CFTC v. Dichao Xie (insider trading, 2023) CFTC 2023-09-27 $350k judgment
SEC v. Robert Del Prete (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-27 judgment
SEC v. Jonathan Becker (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-21 settled
SEC v. Jonathan J. Ferrie (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-18 settled
SEC v. Lyft, Inc. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-18 settled
SEC v. Xia Hong (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-14 settled
SEC v. Virtu Financial Inc. and Virtu Americas LLC (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-12 filed
SEC v. Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-09-11 $100k settled
SEC v. Romero Cabral da Costa Neto (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-08-24 unknown
SEC v. Daniel V.T. Catenacci (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-08-21 $50k judgment
SEC v. Charles Rustin Holzer, Maglione International Ltd., Frontenac Investments Ltd. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-08-07 judgment
SEC v. Janardhan Nellore, et al. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-08-02 judgment
SEC v. Joseph C. Lewis, et al. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-07-26 filed
SEC v. Amit Dagar and Atul Bhiwapurkar (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-07-25 unknown
SEC v. Brandon Charnas (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-07-25 unknown
SEC v. Nirdosh Jagota, Ph.D. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-07-17 settled
SEC v. Bruce Garelick, Michael Shvartsman, Rocket One Capital LLC, and Gerald Shvartsman (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-06-30 unknown
SEC v. Jordan Meadow and Steven Teixeira (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-06-30 unknown
SEC v. Juan Roman (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-06-30 $97.8k judgment
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2023) CFTC 2023-06-29 unknown
SEC v. Ashutosh Bhardwaj (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-06-29 settled
SEC v. Todd Dobberfuhl (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-05-12 settled
SEC v. No Respondents (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-04-18 judgment
SEC v. Sean Wygovsky and Christopher Matthaei (front running, 2023) SEC 2023-03-31 settled
CFTC v. Chinese National (insider trading, 2023) CFTC 2023-03-28 filed
SEC v. Mahmoud Ali Abdelkader (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-03-09 $81.6k judgment
CFTC v. Coquest Inc. (insider trading, 2023) CFTC 2023-03-08 $2.5m settled
SEC v. Terren S. Peizer and Acuitas Group Holdings, LLC (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-03-08 filed
SEC v. James Andrew Stiles, Jr. & Edward Gray Stiles, Jr. (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-02-23 filed
SEC v. Kevin A. Van de Grift and Gil Friedman (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-02-23 filed
SEC v. Olga Kuprina (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-02-08 filed
SEC v. Randy Herschaft (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-01-30 $35.2k settled
SEC v. Donna Matuizek (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-01-27 settled
SEC v. Covington & Burling LLP (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-01-12 settled
SEC v. Vincent Issier (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-12-06 settled
SEC v. Bruce Conway et al. (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-12-02 unknown
SEC v. Yinghang "James" Yang and Yuanbiao Chen (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-11-30 $246k judgment
SEC v. Charles Rustin Holzer, Fernando Motta Moraes (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-11-16 judgment
SEC v. Brian Wong (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-11-10 settled
SEC v. Michael E. Mueller (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-11-04 settled
SEC v. Scott A. Woodward, CPA (insider trading, 2022) SEC 2022-10-25 settled
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2022) CFTC 2022-10-20 $41m judgment