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  "title": "Market Manipulation: Engineered short squeeze enforcement actions",
  "home_page_url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/technique/engineered-short-squeeze/",
  "feed_url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/feeds/technique/engineered-short-squeeze.json",
  "description": "The 2 most recent enforcement records tagged engineered short squeeze in the Market Manipulation library, each linked to its primary source. Tags are our classification, not the charges.",
  "language": "en-US",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sec-john-brda-engineered-short-squeeze-2024/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sec-john-brda-engineered-short-squeeze-2024/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26035",
      "title": "SEC v. John Brda and Georgios Palikaras (engineered short squeeze, 2024)",
      "summary": "In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought an action against John Brda and Georgios Palikaras, alleging conduct this library classifies as engineered short squeeze. No monetary relief has been recorded at this stage; the matter is an allegation and remains unproven.",
      "date_published": "2024-06-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEC",
        "engineered-short-squeeze"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sec-meta-materials-inc-engineered-short-squeeze-2024/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sec-meta-materials-inc-engineered-short-squeeze-2024/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/admin/2024/33-11292.pdf",
      "title": "SEC v. Meta Materials, Inc. ( and others (engineered short squeeze, 2024)",
      "summary": "In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a release announcing a settlement of findings that the issuer inflated its stock price around a merger dividend before an offering. This library classifies the conduct as engineered short squeeze and reverse merger schemes. The release records a civil penalty of $1,000,000.",
      "date_published": "2024-06-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEC",
        "engineered-short-squeeze",
        "reverse-merger-schemes"
      ]
    }
  ]
}