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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
$73.4m
Median penalty
$79.5k
Largest
$39.5m
Criminal parallel
33%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Victory Ho (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-07-12 — judgment
SEC v. Sasan Sabrdaran and Farhang Afsarpour (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-06-30 — judgment
SEC v. Harold L. Altvater, Maureen E. Curran, Susan L. Dubuc (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-06-27 $12.3k settled
SEC v. Yu-Cheng Lin (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-06-19 — judgment
AMF France v. Jacques Tordjman (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-06-07 — settled
SEC v. Dan (“Alice”) Zhang, CPA (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-06-07 $7.5k settled
SEC v. Michael Trahan (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-06-07 $69.7k settled
SEC v. Walter C. Little and Andrew M. Berke (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-05-11 — settled
Former Perth managing director sentenced to 18 months' jail for insider trading (ASIC, 2017) ASIC 2017-04-28 — judgment
AMF France v. X, A and B (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-04-21 — judgment
AMF France v. A and B (insider trading, 2017) AMF (France) 2017-04-19 — judgment
SEC v. Charles L. Hill, Jr. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-04-18 — dismissed
OSC v. Benedict Cheng and others (insider trading, 2017) OSC 2017-04-12 — settled
SEC v. Lawrence F. Cluff, Jr. and Roger E. Shaoul (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-04-06 $925k settled
ASIC v. Steven Robert Noske (insider trading, 2017) ASIC 2017-04-03 — judgment
SEC v. Vlad B. Spivak, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-04-03 $334k judgment
SEC v. Ariel Darvasi and Amir Waldman (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-24 $1.5m settled
SEC v. Nino Coppero del Valle et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-24 $113k judgment
SEC v. Christopher Ludwig (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-23 $16.4k settled
SEC v. Steven A. Hartung (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-23 $59.7k settled
SEC v. Michael J. Maciocio and David P. Hobson (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-20 — judgment
SEC v. Todd David Alpert (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-15 $43.9k settled
SEC v. Nima Hedayati (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-14 $43k settled
SEC v. Thomas D. Melvin, Jr., et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-03-03 — judgment
SEC v. One or More Unknown Traders in the Securities of Fortress Investment Group, LLC (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-02-28 — filed
SEC v. Yu-Cheng Lin (a.k.a. Believe Lin) (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-02-13 $5.4m judgment
SEC v. Alan Barry Staples (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-02-10 $15.2k settled
SEC v. Shaohua (Michael) Yin, et al. (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-02-10 $39.5m settled
SEC v. Donald P. Jones, CPA (insider trading, 2017) SEC 2017-01-23 $39.1k settled
SEC v. Jo Ann Myers and Hollis W. Pickett, Jr. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-12-16 $49.1k settled
ASIC v. Hochtief AG (insider trading, 2016) ASIC 2016-12-08 — judgment
AMF France v. C, D, E, F, G, A, B and Banque Transatlantique (insider trading, 2016) AMF (France) 2016-12-07 — judgment
SEC v. Marc Winters (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-12-02 $31.9k settled
SEC v. Sanjay Valvani and Gordon Johnston (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-11-14 — settled
SEC v. Eric McPhail and Douglas Parigian (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-11-09 $148k judgment
SEC v. Herbert K. Sudfeld (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-11-09 — judgment
SEC v. Anthony Andrade, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-11-01 $150k judgment
SEC v. Christopher Salis, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-10-21 — settled
SEC v. James C. Cope, Esq. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-10-21 — settled
SEC v. Artis Capital Management, L.P. and Michael W. Harden (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-10-13 $2.6m settled
SEC v. Vladimir Eydelman and Steven Metro (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-30 $1.2m settled
SEC v. Nino Coppero del Valle et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-29 $113k settled
SEC v. Robert Gadimian (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-29 — settled
SEC v. Frank P. Barucci (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-26 $31.3k settled
SEC v. Frank S. Barucci (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-26 $56k settled
SEC v. Syed A. Hashim (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-26 $35.7k settled
SEC v. Vijay S. Rajan (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-26 $27.9k settled
SEC v. Colin Whelehan and Sheren Tsai (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-22 $47.8k settled
SEC v. Frank Tamayo (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-21 — settled
SEC v. Saleem Khan et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-21 $7.6m judgment
Former Sydney investment banker charged with procuring insider trading (ASIC, 2016) ASIC 2016-09-20 — dismissed
SEC v. Steven Metro (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-14 — judgment
SEC v. Dennis W. Hamilton (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-09-07 $584k settled
SEC v. Dennis Wayne Hamilton (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-30 $584k settled
Former director of joint venture partner charged with insider trading offences (ASIC, 2016) ASIC 2016-08-26 — judgment
SEC v. Cedric Cañas Maillard (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-24 $834k judgment
SEC v. J. Patrick O'Neill and Robert H. Bray (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-18 — settled
SEC v. Sean Stewart (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-18 — settled
SEC v. Paul T. Rampoldi , et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-12 — settled
SEC v. Edward J. Kosinski (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-08-04 — settled
SEC v. Herbert K. Sudfeld, Jr. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-07-26 — judgment
SEC v. Yi Chen, CPA (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-07-26 $34.7k settled
SEC v. Thomas D. Melvin, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-07-25 $146k settled
FCA v. Gavin Duncan Paul Breeze (insider trading, 2016) FCA 2016-07-15 — settled
SEC v. Thomas W. Avent, Jr., Raymond J. Pirrello, Jr., and Lawrence J. Penna (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-07-08 $312k judgment
SEC v. Andrew F. Kerr (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-29 — settled
SEC v. James S. Hannon (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-20 $26.7k settled
SEC v. Christopher Salis, Douglas Miller, Edward Miller, and Barrett Biehl (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-16 — settled
SEC v. Guolin Ma (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-09 $367k settled
SEC v. Michael J. Maciocio and David P. Hobson (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-08 — settled
Sydney man jailed on insider trading charges (ASIC, 2016) ASIC 2016-06-03 — judgment
OSC v. Andrei Miguel Postrado (insider trading, 2016) OSC 2016-06-03 — settled
SEC v. Peter D. Nunan (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-03 $255k settled
SEC v. Steven V. McClatchey and Gary J. Pusey (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-06-01 — settled
OSC v. Fernando Postrado (insider trading, 2016) OSC 2016-05-17 — settled
SEC v. John Patrick O'Neill (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-05-13 — judgment
FCA v. Mark Samuel Taylor (insider trading, 2016) FCA 2016-05-05 — settled
AMF France v. Sofra and A (insider trading, 2016) AMF (France) 2016-04-27 — judgment
SEC v. John Afriyie (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-04-14 — unknown
SEC v. John E. Hardy III (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-18 $184k settled
SEC v. Eric J. Wolff (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-16 $87.6k settled
SEC v. Yue Han, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-16 — judgment
Former Hanlong managing director sentenced to more than 8 years jail for insider trading (ASIC, 2016) ASIC 2016-03-11 — judgment
SEC v. Daryl M. Payton, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-02 — judgment
SEC v. Craig N. Salamone (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-01 $4.7k settled
SEC v. Zachary Zwerko and David L. Post (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-03-01 — judgment
SEC v. Bonan Huang, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-26 $8.8m judgment
SEC v. Steven Fishoff, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-24 — judgment
SEC v. Nicholas A. Prezioso (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-19 $131k settled
SEC v. Abdallah Fadel (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-10 $36k settled
SEC v. Jarrod L. Spector (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-09 $21.4k settled
SEC v. Robert M. Munakash, Carlos A. Rodriguez, and Marc Winters (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-02-08 $275k settled
Perth man charged with insider trading appears in court (ASIC, 2016) ASIC 2016-02-04 — judgment
SEC v. Vlad B. Spivak, et al. (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-01-27 $334k settled
SEC v. Reid A. Hackney, CPA (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-01-12 $48.1k settled
SEC v. Vivian S. Shields (insider trading, 2016) SEC 2016-01-04 $71.4k settled
SEC v. Bonan Huang, et al. (insider trading, 2015) SEC 2015-12-23 — judgment
AMF France v. A, B, C, D, E, F and G (insider trading, 2015) AMF (France) 2015-12-22 — judgment
SEC v. Danny E. Carpenter (insider trading, 2015) SEC 2015-12-22 $64.1k settled
SEC v. Eric E. Shear (insider trading, 2015) SEC 2015-12-18 $3k settled