· 8/8/2011
VanCook v. Securities & Exchange Commission
Citations
- 653 F.3d 130
- 2011 WL 3437663
How courts have described this case
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- finding scheme liability where defendant was not “merely associated with the late-trading scheme ..he was its architect.... [He] was intimately involved with the creation, marketing, and implementation of the system”
- affirming sanctions, including associational bar, imposed by the SEC for Exchange Act violations of aiding and abetting failure to keep accurate books and records, among others
- “We have no trouble concluding that VanCook’s late-trading scheme constituted a ‘device, scheme, or artifice to defraud,’ in violation of subsec tion (a
- finding scheme liability, in part, for “false assurances”
- finding “architect” of trading scheme violated scheme provisions
- enforcement action for violation of Section 17(a)
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Judges: Pooler, Sack, Lynch
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