Home / Cases / Churning Churning enforcement actions This library records 19 enforcement actions tagged churning. Churning is excessive trading in a customer's account driven by the broker's commissions rather than the customer's objectives, which defrauds one identifiable person and leaves the market price untouched.
Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the churning technique page.
Actions 19
Total penalties $223k
Median penalty $223k
Largest $223k
Criminal parallel 5% Action Agency Filed Penalty Status SEC v. Baris Cabalar (churning, 2024) SEC 2024-10-16 — unknown SEC v. Laidlaw and Company (UK) Ltd. (churning, 2023) SEC 2023-11-20 $223k settled SEC v. Michael Blumer, John Kuprianchik, David Page, Steven Thompson, Joseph Todaro (churning, 2023) SEC 2023-09-28 — unknown SEC v. Carla Lea Chastain (churning, 2023) SEC 2023-08-18 — settled SEC v. Waddell & Reed, LLC (churning, 2022) SEC 2022-09-19 — settled SEC v. NPA Asset Management, LLC (churning, 2022) SEC 2022-09-08 — settled SEC v. American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc. and American Portfolios Advisors, Inc. (churning, 2020) SEC 2020-11-13 — settled SEC v. Rocco Roveccio (churning, 2019) SEC 2019-05-06 — judgment SEC v. William C. Gennity (churning, 2019) SEC 2019-03-04 — judgment SEC v. Zachary S. Berkey (churning, 2018) SEC 2018-10-19 — judgment SEC v. Alexander Capital, L.P. (churning, 2018) SEC 2018-06-29 — settled SEC v. William C. Gennity and Rocco Roveccio (churning, 2018) SEC 2018-04-11 — judgment SEC v. Daniel T. Fischer (churning, 2018) SEC 2018-01-30 — judgment SEC v. Canterbury Consulting, Inc. (churning, 2017) SEC 2017-10-26 — settled SEC v. Laurence M. Torres (churning, 2017) SEC 2017-09-28 — settled SEC v. Demitrios Hallas (churning, 2017) SEC 2017-04-26 — filed SEC v. Quigley and William (churning, 2017) SEC 2017-03-24 — settled SEC v. Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. and Sagepoint Financial, Inc. and Fsc Securities Corporation (churning, 2016) SEC 2016-03-14 — settled SEC v. Bennett Group Financial Services, LLC Bennett and Dawn J. (churning, 2015) SEC 2015-09-09 — unknown