The SEC Brings Fraud Charges Against 13 Individuals For a $14 Million Pump-and-Dump Scheme

Posted on July 17th, 2017 at 1:21 PM
The SEC Brings Fraud Charges Against 13 Individuals For a $14 Million Pump-and-Dump Scheme

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

The SEC has brought fraud charges in federal district court in Brooklyn against 13 individuals, many of them former brokers, for their involvement in Long Island-based scams. According to the SEC, the individuals used boiler-room-style call centers to make hundreds of thousands of cold calls, relying on high-pressure and deceitful sales tactics to sell penny stocks.

Moreover, the boiler rooms fraudulently promoted at least four microcap securities, often making material misstatements about the investments to investors, who were frequently elderly and unsophisticated, to "pump" up the securities' price and then sell their own shares at artificially high prices to reap profits.

The alleged pump and dump scheme generated approximately $14 million in illegal gains for the defendants. The SEC's complaint charges all defendants with fraud and nine defendants with market manipulation.

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