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April 21, 2022

Bernard L. Compton, former accountant at Domino’s Pizza, will pay nearly $2 million for insider trading. Compton illicitly leveraged his insider role at Domino’s to trade ahead of 12 of the company’s earnings announcements between 2015 and 2020. Compton attempted to hide his crime by spreading the trades across several different brokerage accounts held by himself and his family members. Compton is permanently enjoined from practicing before the SEC. SEC

October 15, 2020

Energy company Andeavor LLC will pay a $20 million penalty to resolve allegations that, while the company was in merger discussions with Marathon Petroleum  Corp. in 2018, it implemented a stock buyback plan without taking adequate compliance steps, including an evaluation of whether the company was in possession of material non-public information about corporate developments.  The Marathon merger, which valued Andeavor at over $150 per share, was announced one month after Andeavor completed the buyback at an average price of $97 per share.  SEC

September 30, 2020

Marcus Schulz will pay over $1 million – a $670,000 penalty and $427,000 in disgorgement – to resolve CFTC allegations that, while employed as an energy trader, he passed on confidential information to an outside broker, including information about his employers block trade orders.  The broker would then arrange to take the other side of the order at prices that allowed the broker and others involved in the scheme to make a profit on offsetting trades, which profits they shared with Schulz.  CFTC

June 10, 2020

Eight defendants - Arkadiy Dubovoy, Igor Dubovoy, Southeastern Holding and Investment Company LLC, APD Developers, Inc., Leonid Momotok, Aleksandr Garkusha, Vladislav Khalupsky, and Memelland Investments Ltd. – have settled civil claims in connection with the hacking of newswire services to steal corporate earnings releases before they were made public.  The SEC alleged that the hackers created a secret web-based location to transmit the stolen data to traders in the United States and abroad. The traders allegedly used this nonpublic information in a short window of opportunity to place illicit trades in stocks, options, and other securities, sometimes funneling a portion of their illegal profits to the hackers.  The defendants will pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest totaling more than $14 million. SEC

December 12, 2019

Two oil and gas executives have settled insider trading charges with the SEC by agreeing to pay nearly $6 million in civil penalty, disgorgement, and prejudgment interest.  The two, John Davidson and John Special, allegedly purchased shares of medical device company, Covidien PLC, upon learning non-public information about a potential merger with Medtronic PLC.  When news of the merger was officially released, investment accounts controlled by the men earned over $1 million in illicit gains.  SEC

December 9, 2019

Former U.S. Representative Christopher Collins, his son Cameron Collins, and the father of Cameron Collins’ former girlfriend, Stephen Zarsky, have settled insider trading charges with the SEC.  While serving on the board of Australian biotech company Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd., the elder Collins learned about the impending release of negative test results for a multiple sclerosis drug.  His subsequent disclosure to his son, and his son’s disclosure to Zarsky, led the three to sell $700,000 worth of Innate shares before news hit the market.  Defendants will disgorge approximately $700,000, and have pleaded guilty to related criminal charges.  SEC

October 1, 2019

Matthew D. Webb of Houston, Texas, and his employer, broker Classic Energy LLC, will pay over $1.5 million to resolve charges that Webb used material, nonpublic information from Classic customers to make trades in Webb's proprietary trading account.  In addition, Webb failed to disclose to Classic customers that he was acting not only as a broker, but also as a trading counterparty.  Classic Energy was also found to have multiple supervision and recordkeeping failures.  CFTC

July 18, 2018

After being charged in March 2018, former Equifax executive Jun Ying has agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest totaling $125,636 to resolve charges that he engaged in insider trading ahead of exposure of Equifax's data breach. Ying's payment obligation will be offset by the $117,117 forfeiture that he has already paid in the parallel criminal case.  SEC

May 7, 2019

The SEC has tentatively settled insider trading charges with a Nevada man who allegedly engaged in prohibited insider trading after he peeked at confidential details of a possible acquisition by Cintas Corporation while at the home of Cintas’s general counsel, a lifelong friend. Armed with information about the company’s plan to acquire G&K Services, Brian Fettner purchased G&K stock through his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend’s brokerage accounts, then persuaded both a third love interest and his father to purchase G&K stock on their own. When the merger was publicly announced in August 2016, accounts associated with Fettner netted profits exceeding $250,000. Fettner is expected to pay a penalty of $252,995, and his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend is expected to disgorge of their illicit gains. SEC

February 20, 2019

Following charges in 2017, two individuals have been sentenced for their roles in an insider trading scheme that used information from co-conspirator Daniel Rivas, who was employed by an investment bank. Robert Rodriguez was sentenced to one year in prison and Michael Siva was sentenced to 18 months.  Rivas supplied his co-conspirators with information from the investment bank's deal tracking system about upcoming mergers and acquisitions before they were publicly announced.  Rodriguez, Siva, and others in their tipping chains then traded on the information, earning more than $5 million in illicit profits on more than two dozen securities.  USAO SDNY; USAO SDNY
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