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Insider trading enforcement actions

This library records 851 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
$36.3m
Median penalty
$65.5k
Largest
$9.9m
Criminal parallel
30%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Daniel J. Callahan (insider trading, 2019) SEC 2019-02-08 $19.4k settled
SEC v. Peter Cho (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-17 $251k settled
AMF France v. Sofiro, P, N, O, Q, R, S, T, A, U, V, W and B (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-12-14 — judgment
SEC v. Rajeshwar R. Gannamaneni, Deepthi Gandra, and Linga R. Gannamaneni (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-12-10 $376k settled
AMF France v. Emmanuel Morin (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-11-26 — settled
OSC v. Christopher Candusso and others (insider trading, 2018) OSC 2018-11-23 — judgment
SEC v. James V. Mazzo, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-14 $1.5m settled
SEC v. James E. Hengen (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-08 $72.1k judgment
SEC v. Slobodan Dragojlovic (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-11-08 $20.1k judgment
OSC v. Keir Reynolds (insider trading, 2018) OSC 2018-10-25 — judgment
AMF France v. C, A, D, E, F, B and G (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-10-24 — judgment
SEC v. Bryan B. Long (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-16 $35.8k settled
SEC v. Harold L. Altvater (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-11 — settled
SEC v. Dennis Wayne Hamilton (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-10 $584k judgment
SEC v. Robert O. Carr and Katherine M. Hanratty (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-10-05 $251k judgment
CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-28 — filed
CFTC v. EOX Holdings LLC and Andrew Gizienski (insider trading, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-28 $7.5m judgment
SEC v. Bryan R. Ziegenfuse (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 $64.1k settled
SEC v. Edward J. Kosinski (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 — settled
SEC v. Unal Patel and Amish Patel (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-28 $30.6k settled
SEC v. Thomas Earl Hayden (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-27 $298k settled
Former CEO and director of Sirtex Medical Limited charged with insider trading (ASIC, 2018) ASIC 2018-09-26 — judgment
SEC v. Rong Chen, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-09-14 $167k settled
SEC v. Amer Deeba (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-30 $581k settled
SEC v. Kendricks, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-30 $15k settled
SEC v. Fishoff, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-23 — filed
SEC v. Gary S. Williky (insider trading, price manipulation, 2018) SEC 2018-08-23 $1.7m judgment
SEC v. James T. Lentz (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-22 $9.1k settled
Former managing director of mining company found guilty of insider trading (ASIC, 2018) ASIC 2018-08-21 — judgment
SEC v. A. Catlin Cade, IV (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-21 $8.7k settled
SEC v. Ismail Lila (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-21 $28.6k settled
SEC v. Honglan Wang (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-16 $67k settled
SEC v. Christopher Collins, et al., Lauren Zarksy, Dorothy Zarsky (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-10 $42k settled
SEC v. Aaron R. Smith (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-07 $40.6k settled
SEC v. Fei Yan, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-03 — judgment
SEC v. Lozuk (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-01 $26.6k settled
SEC v. Madan (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-08-01 $14k settled
SEC v. Fred Tinker (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-31 $89.2k settled
SEC v. Robert Gadimian (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-26 — judgment
SEC v. Richard T. Cunniffe (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-25 — settled
SEC v. Matthew Brunstrum and Susan Brunstrum (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-24 — settled
SEC v. Yao Li (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-24 $196k settled
Former executive charged with insider trading (ASIC, 2018) ASIC 2018-07-23 — judgment
SEC v. Gene Shen (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-10 $43.3k settled
AMF France v. Cibox Inter@ctive, AI Investment, A and B (false or misleading information, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-07-05 — judgment
SEC v. Molina (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-05 $39.2k judgment
SEC v. Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-07-02 — settled
SEC v. Robert M. Morano (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-06-11 — judgment
SEC v. Todd David Alpert (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-05-18 $43.9k judgment
AMF France v. Pascal Chevalier (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-05-09 — settled
SEC v. Visium Asset Management, LP (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-05-08 $4.8m settled
SEC v. Bovorn Rungruangnavarat (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-05-07 — settled
SEC v. David A. Zimliki and Russel P. Schiefer (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-05-04 $15.2k settled
SEC v. William T. Walters, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-04-30 — settled
SEC v. Douglas Nelson (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-04-16 $15.1k settled
AMF France v. Delta Drone, A, B, C and D (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-04-13 — judgment
SEC v. Saverio J. Barbera (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-04-05 $290k settled
SEC v. Christopher James Lollar (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-04-04 $214k judgment
SEC v. Shane P. Fleming, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-04-04 — settled
OSC v. Martin Bernholtz (insider trading, 2018) OSC 2018-03-29 — settled
SEC v. Joseph Spera, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-03-26 — settled
SEC v. Jun Ying (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-03-22 — judgment
SEC v. Steven Metro (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-03-19 $25k judgment
SEC v. Yang Xie (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-02-28 $6.7k settled
SEC v. Eric McPhail, et al. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-02-20 $192k judgment
SEC v. Ara Chackerian (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-02-12 $157k settled
SEC v. One or More Unknown Traders in the Securities of Bioverativ, Inc. (insider trading, 2018) SEC 2018-01-26 $9.9m judgment
AMF France v. Scientex (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-01-10 — settled
AMF France v. Timothée Muller (insider trading, 2018) AMF (France) 2018-01-10 — settled
AMF France v. Cybergun, Ingeco, A and B (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-12-21 — judgment
AMF France v. A and B (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-12-18 — judgment
AMF France v. A (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-12-18 — judgment
SEC v. Kenneth Peer (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-12-14 $10.2k settled
SEC v. Lanny Brown, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-12-14 — settled
SEC v. Stephen J. Leonard (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-12-07 $107k judgment
Caloundra man charged for insider trading (ASIC, 2017) ASIC 2017-11-16 — judgment
SEC v. Susan L. Ellerin and Edward D. Blumstein (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-11-14 — settled
SEC v. J. Patrick O'Neill and Robert H. Bray (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-10-25 — judgment
SEC v. Arun J. Singh (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-10-03 $25k judgment
AMF France v. X and A (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-09-29 — dismissed
SEC v. Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-29 — judgment
SEC v. Fengjiu Zhang and Xianli Kong (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-28 $88.8k settled
SEC v. Sean Stewart et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-28 — judgment
SEC v. Jason Napodano, Bilal Basrai and Bryce Stirton (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-26 $186k settled
OSC v. Donna Hutchinson, Cameron Cornish, David Sidders and Patrick Jelf Caruso (insider trading, 2017) OSC 2017-09-22 — judgment
SEC v. Joel P. Zingerman (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-21 $56.6k settled
SEC v. Justin Samuel Cary (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-21 $8.1k settled
SEC v. Peter C. Chang (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-20 $500k settled
SEC v. Lawrence F. Cluff, Jr., Roger E. Shaoul, and James Shaoul (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-13 $5.1m settled
SEC v. Mayank Gupta, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-13 $23.8k settled
SEC v. Brett Kennedy, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-07 $11.6k settled
SEC v. Alan M. Stark, Esq. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-09-05 $7.6k settled
SEC v. Evan R. Kita, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-08-31 — judgment
OSC v. Khalid Walid Jawhari (insider trading, 2017) OSC 2017-08-30 — judgment
SEC v. Daniel Rivas, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-08-16 — judgment
SEC v. Damon Hovannisian, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-08-11 $308k settled
SEC v. David Blaszczak, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-08-08 — settled
SEC v. Steven V. McClatchey and Gary J. Pusey (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-08-08 — judgment
SEC v. Harold L. Altvater (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-07-28 — settled
SEC v. John F. Stimpson (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-07-18 $136k settled