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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
$5.3m
Median penalty
$127k
Largest
$1.7m
Criminal parallel
33%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Dandan Wu (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-06-29 settled
SEC v. Jana Faith Kiena, CPA (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-06-05 $125k settled
SEC v. Ares Management LLC (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-05-26 settled
SEC v. Zhuobin Hong, et al. (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-05-05 filed
SEC v. Wei Duan (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-04-30 settled
SEC v. Amir Waldman, et al. (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-04-17 judgment
SEC v. Bryan Cohen and George Nikas (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-30 judgment
SEC v. Benjamin Kirkland (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-27 settled
SEC v. David M. Mahan (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-26 judgment
SEC v. Kendricks, et al., Hamed A. Ettu (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-23 judgment
SEC v. Scott O. Hirsch and Kenneth L. Friedman (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-19 settled
SEC v. Tomer Feingold and Dov Malnik (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-03-06 filed
SEC v. Bradley Davis (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-28 unknown
SEC v. Charles F. Kerwin (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-24 $47.4k settled
SEC v. Jon L. Aronson and Elliet N. Aronson (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-20 judgment
SEC v. Richard Lee, et al. (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-20 judgment
SEC v. Charlie Jinan Chen and Shui Foon Mok (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-05 unknown
SEC v. Cannell Capital, LLC (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-02-04 settled
SEC v. Bill Tsai (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-01-31 judgment
SEC v. Robert O. Carr and Katherine M. Hanratty (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-01-13 $251k judgment
SEC v. Donald G. Blakstad (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-01-08 filed
SEC v. James V. Mazzo, et al. (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-01-02 $56k judgment
SEC v. Pinto-Thomaz, et al. (insider trading, 2020) SEC 2020-01-02 judgment
SEC v. Amir Waldman, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-12-23 judgment
SEC v. Songjiang Wang (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-12-20 filed
SEC v. Janardhan Nellore et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-12-18 unknown
SEC v. John Special, Defendant, and Michael Murphy, Relief Defendant, John Kenneth Davidson (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-12-12 $1.5m judgment
SEC v. Christopher Collins, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-12-10 judgment
SEC v. Richard Lee, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-11-21 $130k judgment
SEC v. James S. Kimmel (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-11-19 unknown
SEC v. Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-11-12 judgment
SEC v. Bovorn Rungruangnavarat (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-10-31 judgment
SEC v. Benjamin Taylor, Darina Windsor and Joseph Abdul Noor El-Khouri (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-10-22 filed
SEC v. Bryan Cohen and George Nikas (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-10-22 unknown
SEC v. Daniel Rivas, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-10-10 judgment
SEC v. Sean Stewart, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-09-26 appealed
SEC v. James Alex Irvin (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-09-25 settled
SEC v. James Wallace Nall, III, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-09-24 $140k judgment
SEC v. Abner Silva (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-09-06 settled
SEC v. Keith G. Daubenspeck and Geoffrey L. Homer (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-09-05 $111k judgment
SEC v. TherapeuticsMD, Inc. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-08-20 settled
SEC v. Bill Tsai (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-08-16 filed
SEC v. Lorenz Erne (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-08-15 $79.6k settled
SEC v. Thomas W. Avent, Jr., et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-08-15 settled
SEC v. James W. Holden (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-31 settled
SEC v. Christopher Plaford (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-29 judgment
SEC v. Balaji Sundarraj and David O'brien (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-23 $35k settled
SEC v. Jun Ying (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-18 judgment
SEC v. Mark Loman (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-18 unknown
SEC v. Tory J. R. Schalkle (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-07-01 settled
SEC v. Rajeshwar R. Gannamaneni, Deepthi Gandra, and Linga R. Gannamaneni (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-06-27 settled
SEC v. Raymond Starker (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-06-18 $46.3k judgment
SEC v. Roland M. Mathys (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-06-13 unknown
SEC v. Christopher Salis, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-06-12 dismissed
SEC v. Steven Fishoff, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-06-11 judgment
SEC v. David A. Altom and Gabriel V. Graven (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-29 settled
SEC v. Mark "Christian" Ramsey (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-21 filed
SEC v. Robert M. Schulman, Esq. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-16 appealed
SEC v. Brian Fettner, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-14 judgment
SEC v. Bryan B. Long, CPA (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-13 judgment
SEC v. Robert M. Morano (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-13 judgment
SEC v. Lloyd Schuman and Dane Janes (Corrected Version) (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-05-09 settled
SEC v. One or More Unknown Traders in the Securities of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-29 judgment
SEC v. Yuh-Yue Chen (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-18 unknown
SEC v. Quentin Louis Wilcox (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-16 judgment
SEC v. Paul Bannon Powers (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-10 settled
SEC v. Tai-Cheng Yang (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-05 settled
SEC v. Evan R. Kita, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-04-04 judgment
SEC v. Rong Chen, et al. (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-03-04 $167k judgment
SEC v. Walter C. Little and Andrew M. Berke (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-02-22 judgment
SEC v. Joseph Frank Vacante (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-02-21 judgment
SEC v. Gene Daniel Levoff (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-02-13 unknown
SEC v. Daniel J. Callahan (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-02-08 $19.4k settled
SEC v. ADT Inc. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-26 settled
SEC v. Peter Cho (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-17 judgment
SEC v. Rajeshwar R. Gannamaneni, Deepthi Gandra, and Linga R. Gannamaneni (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-10 unknown
SEC v. Fifth Street Management, LLC (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-03 settled
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2018) CFTC 2018-11-15 unknown
SEC v. James V. Mazzo, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-14 judgment
SEC v. James E. Hengen (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-08 judgment
SEC v. Slobodan Dragojlovic (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-08 judgment
SEC v. Bryan B. Long (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-16 filed
SEC v. Harold L. Altvater (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-11 filed
SEC v. Dennis Wayne Hamilton (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-10 judgment
SEC v. Robert O. Carr and Katherine M. Hanratty (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-05 judgment
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-28 filed
CFTC v. Block Trade Broker (front running, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-28 filed
SEC v. Bryan R. Ziegenfuse (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 judgment
SEC v. Edward J. Kosinski (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 filed
SEC v. Unal Patel and Amish Patel (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 settled
SEC v. Thomas Earl Hayden (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-27 $198k settled
SEC v. John Paul Waymack (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-18 unknown
SEC v. Rong Chen, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-14 filed
SEC v. Amer Deeba (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-30 $581k judgment
SEC v. Kendricks, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-30 filed
SEC v. Fishoff, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-23 filed
SEC v. Gary S. Williky (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-23 $1.7m judgment
SEC v. James T. Lentz (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-22 settled
SEC v. A. Catlin Cade, IV (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-21 settled
SEC v. Ismail Lila (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-21 settled