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Float locking enforcement actions

This library records 1 enforcement action tagged float locking. Float locking is removing shares from the freely tradable supply — through lock-ups, nominee holdings, or coordinated refusal to sell or lend — so that ordinary buying moves the price far more than the company's size would suggest.

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 float locking technique page.

Actions
1
Total penalties
$0
Median penalty
Largest
Criminal parallel
100%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEC v. Howard M. Appel (float locking, 2019) SEC 2019-05-22 judgment