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This action was dismissed. The allegations described below were not established. This page is kept online so that the outcome is visible alongside the original filing.

SEC v. unnamed respondents (boiler rooms, 2024)

Dismissed

Machine-extracted, pending human review. The structured fields on this page were parsed automatically from the regulator's own release, linked below. Read the primary document before relying on any figure here, and tell us if something is wrong.

In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought an action, since dismissed, against the named respondents, alleging conduct this library classifies as boiler rooms. The release records disgorgement of $7.7 million, prejudgment interest of $983,819.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-26174
Date filed 2024-11-20
Court U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Status dismissed
Criminal parallel No
Defendants
Techniques Boiler rooms

What was ordered

Civil penalty
Disgorgement
$7.7m
Prejudgment interest
$984k
Total relief
$8.6m
Alleged gain

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

the Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on November 20, 2024 as release LR-26174. The respondents named are the named respondents. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.

This library tags the matter as boiler rooms, based on the conduct the regulator describes. Each tag links to a page explaining how that technique works, what statute it engages, and what penalties comparable actions have attracted. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

The relief recorded in our data is disgorgement of $7.7 million, prejudgment interest of $983,819. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

The action was dismissed. We keep dismissed matters in the library precisely so that the outcome is visible alongside the original allegation.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

Timeline

  1. 2024-11-20 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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The linked release is a work of the United States government and is not subject to copyright. Our summary and narrative above are our own writing.

Other actions in the library sharing at least one technique tag with this one.

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. Andrew Spaventa and others (boiler rooms, 2026) SEC 2026-08-17 Boiler Rooms filed
SEC v. Anthony Guarino (boiler rooms, 2024) SEC 2024-09-12 Boiler Rooms settled
SEC v. Mario Gogliormella, Steven Lacaj, and Karim Ibrahim a/k/a/ Chris Hayes (boiler rooms, 2024) SEC 2024-06-12 Boiler Rooms filed
SEC v. James P. Anglim (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-07-17 Boiler Rooms judgment
SEC v. Legend Venture Partners LLC (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-07-11 Boiler Rooms filed
SEC v. Vuuzle Media Corp., Vuuzle Media Corp. Limited, Ronald Shane Flynn, and Richard Marchitto (boiler rooms, 2023) SEC 2023-06-27 Boiler Rooms judgment

Record added September 8, 2026. submit a correction.