Securities & Exchange Commission v. Kenton Capital, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• finding defendants acted as brokers when they together solicited 40 investors and received a total of $1.7 million in investments
• imposing a civil penalty amount that was calculated by \multiplying the maximum third tier penalty for natural persons . . . by the number of persons who actually sent money to [defendant] . . . .\
• summary judgment .against unregistered defendant that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars
• the defendant entity was incorporated in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, and its president had ”worked for many years as a registered securities professional” and searched “for trading programs and investors” on behalf of the defendant entity (emphasis added)
• imposing 12 penalties, one for each investor defrauded
• describing evidence sufficient to infer retaliatory intent

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