29 tracked private-fraud cases involving securities fraud.
Matthew Goettsche is alleged to have been involved in a $722 million BitClub fraud scheme. The DOJ is moving to dismiss charges against him that included conspiracy to commit wire fraud and selling unregistered securities.
A 72-year-old woman was convicted of theft, securities fraud, and misappropriation of funds after meeting a man on a dating website, moving into his home, and fraudulently obtaining $400,000 through encouraging investments and misappropriating funds for personal use including vehicle purchases and gambling.
Justin Chen was sentenced to 27 months in prison after being convicted of insider trading conspiracy. Chen misused material non-public information obtained through his employment at an EDGAR filing company to trade in securities of 13 publicly traded companies, generating approximately 2.38 million dollars in profits.
James Patten is alleged to have participated in a stock manipulation scheme linked to Hometown International, a company that operated a single deli, resulting in approximately $100 million in losses. Patten is the third individual to face sentencing in this case.
Nicolo Nourafchan is accused of leading an insider trading ring that allegedly stole mergers and acquisitions tips from top law firms over a decade. He pleaded not guilty in federal court in Boston.
The SEC is investigating alleged insider trading activities that are alleged to have caused harm to Susquehanna.
Susquehanna Investment Group alleges that 100 unnamed defendants engaged in insider trading ahead of China's regulatory crackdown on offshore brokers, profiting through options trades on Nasdaq-listed broker shares via Interactive Brokers.
An investor filed a federal class action alleging that Citadel Securities and Virtu Americas manipulated Genius stock through spoofing tactics involving fake orders to distort price volatility. Genius, the target company, plans to join the lawsuit citing $250 million in alleged damages.
The United States alleged that CTRL Group Limited and Dreamland Limited, Hong Kong-based companies listed on Nasdaq, engaged in pump-and-dump market manipulation schemes. The DOJ filed civil forfeiture complaints seeking recovery of approximately $19.5 million in cash and stock obtained through the schemes.
Miles Guo was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering for leading a scheme to solicit over 1 billion dollars in investments through false statements and misrepresentations to thousands of online followers.
Michael Kane and Shane Hampton were convicted in 2024 of conspiring to commit securities price manipulation and wire fraud related to manipulating Hydro cryptocurrency token prices using automated bots. They are challenging their convictions in the 11th Circuit.
The last of six defendants from Florida pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to manipulate stock prices of penny stock companies and sell them at inflated prices to victim investors throughout the country, including in the Northern District of Ohio.
A Northern California man pleaded guilty to engaging in more than 3,000 instances of manipulative trading and spoofing during a years-long scheme to manipulate the securities markets.
Vadim Komissarov, former CEO of Trident Acquisitions Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, was sentenced to three years in prison for securities fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud TDAC investors and investors in Lottery.com Inc. by publicly reporting false and misleading revenue and business information.
An engineering manager is charged with securities fraud and insider trading in connection with an alleged $1.4 million scheme.
Four individuals were sentenced to prison for participation in an insider trading scheme involving material nonpublic information about a $3.2 billion merger, which resulted in illicit profits exceeding $600,000.
A Morris County man is alleged to have misappropriated confidential documents from his girlfriend's employer, a public relations firm, and traded on material nonpublic information in connection with a scheme involving approximately 2.7 million dollars.
John Lowe and Richard Ringel pleaded guilty to securities fraud for involvement in a multi-year insider trading scheme, with co-defendants David Cooper, a FINRA-registered broker, and Randy Grewal also pleading guilty to securities fraud. Each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 20 years' imprisonment.
Charles Cole is charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of millions of shares of a technology company.
The Department of Justice announced a compensation process for victims of an alleged pump-and-dump investment fraud scheme involving Chinese Liberal Education Holdings Ltd.
An activist short seller was convicted of securities fraud for operating a long-running market manipulation scheme that generated profits of more than $21 million.
A Google security engineer is alleged to have engaged in insider trading by using confidential company data to profit $1.2 million from bets on the Polymarket crypto-based prediction market.
The SEC allegedly filed a case alleging accounting fraud against the former CEO of Iconix, which was later dropped.
The indictment alleges that a soldier engaged in insider trading on the Polymarket platform, leading to a federal arrest, and Polymarket has launched market integrity tools.
Special forces member Gannon Ken Van Dyke is charged with insider trading for allegedly exploiting confidential knowledge of a Venezuelan military operation, with the indictment alleging he profited nearly $400,000.
Jane Street filed to dismiss a lawsuit from Terraform Labs that alleges insider trading.
Jane Street is alleged to have engaged in insider trading and market manipulation that contributed to the collapse of the UST/LUNA algorithmic stablecoin. The plaintiff, Terraform Labs, has filed a civil lawsuit and Jane Street has requested dismissal.
The U.S. authorities have charged an individual with securities fraud, and the suspect is reportedly stuck in China after a flight ban was imposed.
The SEC alleges that 21 individuals were involved in a decade-long insider trading scheme in which they allegedly misappropriated information from multiple global law firms and generated millions of dollars in illicit profits.