SEC Obtains Partial Summary Judgment against Westport Capital Markets
From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:
A federal court recently granted partial summary judgment in the Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") favor against Christopher E. McClure and his firm, Westport Capital Markets, LLC.
According to the SEC's complaint, McClure and Westport Capital Markets breached their fiduciary duties and defrauded their advisory clients when they repeatedly purchased securities that generated significant amounts of undisclosed compensation and enriched themselves at their clients' expense. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of ill-gotten monetary gains plus interest, and penalties.
According to the court order, the defendants acted at least negligently when they did not disclose their conflicts of interest. Therefore, the SEC is entitled to summary judgment on its claims. The court reserved for trial questions of material fact as to whether defendants acted intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly and to whether defendants acted willfully under the antifraud provisions of the Advisers Act.
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