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SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - November 30th, 2012

(Nov 2012)

SEC v. John H. Pamplin, Jr.
November 29, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22550)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), former TurboChef Technologies, Inc. employee John H. Pamplin, Jr. traded with insider information regarding TurboChef's pending acquisition by The Middleby Corporation in 2008 which resulted in a $68,000 illicit profit. According to the SEC, Pamplin violated the Exchange Act. The SEC seeks "permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement, pre-judgment interest, and civil...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - November 23rd, 2012

(Nov 2012)

Brian Stoker Found Not Liable
November 21, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22541)
On July 31, 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York found Brian H. Stoker, former Citigroup Global Markets Inc. employee, "not liable for violations of the Federal securities laws related to the issuance of a $1 billion collateralized debt obligation (CDO) called Class V Funding III." The SEC did not appeal the verdict, and "the time for appeal has expired." The SEC filed its...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - November 16th, 2012

(Nov 2012)

BP to Pay $525 Million Penalty to Settle SEC Charges of Securities Fraud During Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
November 15, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22531)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), BP p.l.c misled investors by understating the flow rate of oil that was escaping from its Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010. According to the SEC, while BP reported the flow rate was about 5,000 barrels of oil a day, it had "at least five different flow rate calculations, estimates, or data...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - November 11th, 2012

(Nov 2012)

SEC Charges Purported Credit Union and Its Principal with Offering Fraud
November 8, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22526)
The SEC filed a civil injunctive action against Stanley B. McDuffie and his entity, Jilapuhn, Inc (which has done business as Her Majesty's Credit Union) this week. According to the complaint (opens to PDF), from 2008 to 2012 McDuffie and HMCU enticed investors to purchase CDs "through the HMCU website and a branch office in the U.S. Virgin Islands," assuring investors that...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - November 2nd, 2012

(Nov 2012)

Commission Files Subpoena Enforcement Action Against Adam Bielski
November 1, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22525)
On October 24, 2012, the SEC filed an application for "an order to enforce an investigative subpoena served on Adam Bielski." In August the SEC "issued a formal order of private investigation authorizing its staff to investigate...potential compliance and security deficiencies at a Massachusetts-based investment adviser...registered with the Commission." Specifically, the staff...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - October 26th, 2012

(Oct 2012)

Former Silicon Valley Executive to Pay $1.75 Million to Settle Insider Trading Charges
October 26, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22523)
The SEC charged Kris Chellam, former senior executive of Xilinx Inc., with illegally tipping "hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with nonpublic information that allowed the Galleon hedge funds to make nearly $1 million in illicit profits." Chellam allegedly tipped Rajaratnam on December 5, 2006 that Xilinx Inc. "would fall short of revenue projections it had...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - October 19th, 2012

(Oct 2012)

SEC Charges Three Individuals for Their Roles in a $5.77 Million Investment Scheme
October 18, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22514)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), from February 2010 to February 2011 Geoffrey H. Lunn, Darlene A. Bishop, and Vincent G. Curry raised $5.77 million in an "investment scheme [through] Dresdner Financial, a fictitious financial services company." Lunn allegedly attracted investors by posing as the vice-president of Dresdner and telling investors that...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - October 12th, 2012

(Oct 2012)

SEC Brings New Charges in Insider Trading Case Against Chinese Citizens
October, 12, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22508)
In December 2011, the SEC charged several Chinese citizens and Chinese-based entity, All Know Holdings Ltd., with insider trading concerning the merger between Pearson plc and Global Education and Technology Group, Ltd. The SEC filed an amendedcomplaint on October 4, 2012, naming Jie Meng as a new defendant. According to the complaint, Meng received information regarding...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - October 5th, 2012

(Oct 2012)

SEC Charges Unlicensed Financial Advisor James S. Quay for Defrauding Investors in Atlanta Area
October 4, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22506)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), James S. Quay, along with his brother Jeffrey A. Quay, conducted a scheme in which they convinced two elderly women to invest $560,000 into a sham limited partnership called Trinity Charitable Solutions. Quay, who has a history of defrauding the elderly, claimed the funds would be used to operate the program,...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - September 28th, 2012

(Sep 2012)

Court Enters Final Judgments by Consent Against SEC Defendants Shay Keren and Lawrence Steven Cohen
September 27, 2012, (Litigation Release No. 22498)
The SEC announced that final judgments have been entered against Shay Keren and Lawrence Steven Cohen which permanently enjoins them from violating sections of the Securities Act and Exchange Act as well as bars them from "participating in an offering of penny stock for a period of five years." The SEC filed a complaint in September 2008 against...

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