Tag: Securities and Exchange Commission

August 12, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC charges stockbroker and friend with insider trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a stockbroker and his friend with participating in an insider trading scheme to profit in advance of two major announcements out of a pharmaceutical company. The SEC alleges that Paul T. Rampoldi coordinated the insider trading with two other brokers at his firm as well as a then-IT executive…

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November 20, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff

SEC suspends trading in shares of questionable Ebola prevention and treatment companies

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today suspended trading in four companies that claim to be developing products or services in response to the Ebola outbreak, citing a lack of publicly available information about the companies’ operations. The SEC simultaneously issued an investor alert warning about the potential for fraud in microcap companies purportedly…

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