https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/ Every correction logged on this site: the date, what was wrong and what changed. en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:04:02 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-09-scope-widened--sebi-scope-widened-167-records-added-sebi-now-656-analysis-posts-re-run-on-3273-records 2026-10-09-sebi-scope-widened-167-records-added-sebi-now-656-analysis-posts-re-run-on-3-273 Affected: 167 new SEBI records, the SEBI total (489 to 656: 466 judgments, 122 dismissals, 68 settlements), the library total (3,106 to 3,273), the SEBI regulator page, the sources page and the analysis posts. Why. The 8 October SEBI scope was narrower than the library's own practice of including related conduct. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT scope widened https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-08-new-source-and-removals--sebi-added-as-a-seventh-regulator-21-non-matter-records-removed-analysis-posts-re-run 2026-10-08-sebi-added-as-a-seventh-regulator-21-non-matter-records-removed-analysis-posts-r Affected: 489 new records, 21 removed records, the library total (3,106 at the time; widened on 9 October, see the entry above), the regulator, firm and coverage pages, the Stanford and Bretas records, and every analysis post that counted records. What was added. Final orders of the Securities and Exchange Board of India from 2022 to October 2026: 357 judgments, 90 dismissals and 42 settlements. They were chosen from 4,624 listed orders by a classifier and an AI reading of each order; the about 1,580 "illiquid stock options at BSE" adjudication orders are grouped into five records. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT new source and removals https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-07-data-checks--amf-second-reading-criminal-stage-corrections-a-new-technique 2026-10-07-amf-second-reading-criminal-stage-corrections-a-new-technique AMF second reading. An independent AI re-read of 60 of the AMF France records (12 settlements, 12 dismissals, 36 sanctions, drawn with a fixed seed) agreed with the recorded values on every field for 54 (90%, 95% interval 80% to 95%) and on defendants, status, amount and date for 59 of 60 (98%). Six records were corrected: one fine was reduced on appeal from EUR 2.1 million to EUR 1.8 million after the Paris Court of Appeal set aside the sanctions on four respondents, and five records had technique tags changed or added. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT data checks https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-05-new-source--amf-france-added-as-a-sixth-regulator-google-analytics-moved-to-consent-mode 2026-10-05-amf-france-added-as-a-sixth-regulator-google-analytics-moved-to-consent-mode Affected: 209 new records, the library total (2,428 to 2,637), the regulator, firm and coverage pages, and every analysis post that counted records. What was added. Decisions of the Commission des sanctions of France's Autorité des marchés financiers from 2004 to 2026: 167 sanctions decisions, 24 homologated settlements and 18 dismissals (clearances). 119 concern insider dealing and 23 price manipulation, with layering, spoofing, marking the close and false information among the rest. Penalties are in euros, kept out of every US-dollar total. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT new source https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-04-new-features--criminal-outcomes-statutes-firm-and-regulator-pages-a-database-six-landmark-posts 2026-10-04-criminal-outcomes-statutes-firm-and-regulator-pages-a-database-six-landmark-post Affected: every record flagged as having a criminal parallel, and new pages built from the data. Criminal outcomes. Each of the 805 records with a criminal parallel now carries the furthest criminal stage its documents state (charged, pleaded, convicted, sentenced, acquitted, dismissed, or not stated), read by an AI model from the documents already linked. In the course of that reading, the flag was cleared on about a dozen more records where the document did not describe a criminal case on the same conduct, and set on a few where it did (Stanford 2025, Mohan 2018). Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT new features https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-04-outcomes--543-of-733-records-stuck-at-filed-were-updated-the-criminal-parallel-flag-was-corrected-on-about-140-records 2026-10-04-543-of-733-records-stuck-at-filed-were-updated-the-criminal-parallel-flag-was-co Affected: records whose status was still "filed". A random sample of 100 found that 66 had since settled, been decided or dismissed, so all 733 were researched in two rounds (the second after the SEC and CFTC sites stopped rate-limiting) against regulator and court pages. Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT outcomes https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--the-last-six-records-cormark-was-not-an-insider-trading-case-and-carusos-co-respondents-were-cleared 2026-10-03-the-last-six-records-cormark-was-not-an-insider-trading-case-and-caruso-s-co-res Affected: Caruso (OSC), Candusso (OSC), Cormark (OSC), Swift Trade (FCA), LeadFX (OSC) and CFTC release 8716-23. All 2,428 records are now marked checked. Caruso. The record implied a case against all four respondents. The Tribunal's October 2019 decision found only Cornish liable and dismissed every allegation against Caruso and Sidders; Hutchinson had settled. Cornish's sanctions (15-year ban, C$300,000 penalty, C$128,000 disgorgement) were added and the ban recorded as his alone. Candusso. The record showed C$600,000, which was one respondent's penalty. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-policy--ponzi-sellers-keep-the-ponzi-tag-cartu-binary-options-tag-confirmed 2026-10-03-ponzi-sellers-keep-the-ponzi-tag-cartu-binary-options-tag-confirmed Records against unregistered sellers or promoters of someone else's Ponzi product keep the Ponzi tag, because the regulator's filing describes the scheme as a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi schemes page now says this. Both Cartu records keep the rigged binary options tag: the CFTC's body text in each release states that the defendants manipulated the results of some trades. The note at the top of the reverse-merger gatekeepers post was shortened with no change to its figures. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT policy https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-addresses--551-case-page-addresses-renamed-because-they-named-a-technique-the-record-no-longer-carries 2026-10-03-551-case-page-addresses-renamed-because-they-named-a-technique-the-record-no-lon Affected: 551 case records. Examples: a record at .../sec-mizuho-securities-usa-llc-front-running-2018/ is now at .../sec-mizuho-securities-usa-llc-2018/; a record whose address said "wash trading" but whose conduct is matched orders now says "matched orders". The full list of old and new addresses is published in the site's source repository (src/lib/slug-redirects.json). Why. The address of a case page is built from the respondent, the lead technique tag and the year. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT addresses https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-audit--all-2428-records-now-checked-against-their-primary-documents 2026-10-03-all-2-428-records-now-checked-against-their-primary-documents Affected: every technique group. Round one on 2 October checked 1,045 records; round two on 3 October read 1,377 more, so 2,422 records were marked checked with the date. The last six were read later on 3 October (see the entry below): Caruso (OSC), Candusso (OSC), Cormark (OSC), Swift Trade (FCA), LeadFX (OSC) and CFTC release 8716-23. Detailed entries for each group follow. The figures below are the reviewers' own counts, summed here; several are approximate (marked "about") and a record can be counted under more than one heading. What was read. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT audit https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--insider-trading-oldest-143-records-13-were-not-insider-trading-and-nearly-half-carried-the-wrong-status-or-money 2026-10-03-insider-trading-oldest-143-records-13-were-not-insider-trading-and-nearly-half-c Affected: ISS, Meade, Wolf, Wolf (decision), Hart, Citigroup Global Markets, Marwood, Federated Global, Grossman, Bar, MDC Partners, Sidoti, and 131 others. Policy and disclosure cases tagged as insider trading (13). Compliance or disclosure failures (ISS, Meade, Citigroup, Marwood, Federated, Sidoti), a compliance officer's altered file (both Wolf records), a chief executive's misleading press releases (Bar), undisclosed executive perquisites (MDC), a subpoena application (Grossman) and perjury or obstruction charges (Hart, Martin-Caro Sanchez). None found anyone trading or tipping. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--insider-trading-second-list-of-143-records-9-retagged-and-about-4-in-10-carried-wrong-money-status-or-names 2026-10-03-insider-trading-second-list-of-143-records-9-retagged-and-about-4-in-10-carried- Affected: Wm Smith & Co., LBMZ Securities, Deerfield, Cannell Capital, TherapeuticsMD, Fifth Street, Silva, Blakstad, Barton, Napodano, Hayden, Bovorn Rungruangnavarat, and 129 others. Compliance and non-trading cases tagged (9). Orders faulting written procedures or disclosure (Wm Smith, LBMZ, Deerfield, Cannell, TherapeuticsMD selective disclosure); Fifth Street is expense allocation and valuation, Silva revenue fraud, Blakstad offering fraud. Barton is a shell-share distribution and is now tagged unregistered distributions. Two subpoena actions (Waymack, Kimmel) charge no one. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--insider-trading-third-list-of-143-records-13-tagged-it-wrongly-and-about-half-carried-a-wrong-name-outcome-or-amount 2026-10-03-insider-trading-third-list-of-143-records-13-tagged-it-wrongly-and-about-half-ca Affected: Ares Management, Andeavor, Advanced Practice Advisors, AT&T, App Annie, MIO Partners, Trovias, Willis, Conway, Covington & Burling, Charnas, Virtu, and 131 others. Tag removed (13). Policy or controls failures (Ares, Andeavor, MIO, Advanced Practice Advisors, Virtu); disclosure or fraud cases (AT&T Regulation FD, App Annie data misrepresentation, Willis press releases, Lyft related-party disclosure, Trovias selling fake "tips"); and subpoena enforcement actions that charge no trading (Conway, Covington, Charnas). Each now carries no technique. Money (about 52). Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--insider-trading-newest-142-records-ten-were-not-insider-trading-cases-and-most-settled-orders-had-no-money-or-the-wrong-respondents-money 2026-10-03-insider-trading-newest-142-records-ten-were-not-insider-trading-cases-and-most-s Affected: Pirrello, Senvest, FlowPoint, Sound Point, Marathon, Unisys, SogoTrade, Silver Point, Virtu, Willis, Morgan Stanley, Groom, and 130 others. Not insider trading (10). Pirrello is a pre-IPO offering fraud (insider trading only as his earlier history). Senvest is off-channel recordkeeping; SogoTrade is anti-money-laundering reporting; Unisys is cybersecurity disclosure; Willis is false statements and Regulation FD. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--ponzi-schemes-first-list-of-147-18-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support-and-about-30-had-wrong-money 2026-10-03-ponzi-schemes-first-list-of-147-18-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support-a Affected: CFTC v. Martin, Martin, Queen Shoals, Quan, Total Wealth Management, Fry, Clark, Klatch, Lunn, Luca International, Garfield Taylor, Summit Trust, and 137 others. Tags removed (18). Feeder or adviser to someone else's Ponzi scheme: Quan (two records), Fry, Total Wealth (Life's Good), the Martins (customer money passed to Hanson). Earlier scheme as background only: Clark, Klatch. One incidental "Ponzi-like" repayment in a theft or fake-firm case: Riel, Blazer (2016, 2017), Newsholme (2017, 2018), Kolf, Lunn, Chamroonrat (three records), Ikokwu. Money (about 30). Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--ponzi-schemes-second-list-of-147-58-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support-34-had-the-wrong-status-and-23-the-wrong-money 2026-10-03-ponzi-schemes-second-list-of-147-58-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support- Affected: Murakami, Goldman, Chiat, Krimm, Bekkedam, Rumbaugh, Mooney, Dalius, Elliott, and 138 others. Tags removed (58; 57 emptied, 1 partial). The release says "Ponzi-like payments" or "in the manner of a Ponzi scheme" once, as one use of stolen money, in a fraud headed as something else (hedge fund loss concealment, offering fraud, forex pool fraud, misappropriation). Two were other people's schemes: Bekkedam sold Rothstein's; Rumbaugh, Mooney, Wright and Flippen recommended Werth's and Woods'. Dalius also lost the undisclosed-control-blocks tag (a concealed role, not a share stake). Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--ponzi-schemes-third-list-of-147-33-lost-a-tag-50-had-the-wrong-status-and-63-had-truncated-or-spliced-defendant-names 2026-10-03-ponzi-schemes-third-list-of-147-33-lost-a-tag-50-had-the-wrong-status-and-63-had Affected: Kaplan, Russell, Dow Rockwell, Sanaullah, Wells Real Estate, Kawuba, Aras agents, and 140 others. Tags removed (33). Ponzi-like payments appear as one clause in a fraud about something else (Kaplan, Russell, Lawrence, McKnight, Verne, Todd, Feloni, Fernandez, Patel, Newell, Gilchrist and others); another party's scheme (Dow Rockwell, Sanaullah, Wendy Swensen as relief defendant); a follow-on bar reciting a clause (Heckler, Vargas). Wells Real Estate also lost undisclosed control blocks, which was a fraud control person, not a stock block. Status (50). Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--rule-105-orders-and-regulation-sho-matters-all-83-rule-105-tags-correct-18-of-49-naked-short-selling-tags-wrong-and-70-records-with-wrong-money 2026-10-03-rule-105-orders-and-regulation-sho-matters-all-83-rule-105-tags-correct-18-of-49 Affected: Nasdaq, CBOE, LavaFlow, Knight, du Pasquier, Nevatia, LaPenna, Orthofix executives, Morgan Stanley, Citadel Securities, ITG, Argosy, and about 120 others. Tag removed (18 of 49 naked-short-selling records). The documents charge something else: exchange and system failures (Nasdaq, CBOE, LavaFlow); market-access controls (Knight); adviser compliance (du Pasquier); fraud (Nevatia, LaPenna); accounting (Orthofix executives); order marking only (Morgan Stanley, Citadel Securities); ADR pre-release under Securities Act 17(a)(3) (ITG, Banca IMI, Deutsche Bank Trust, Citibank, BNY Mellon,… Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--reverse-mergers-undisclosed-control-blocks-free-riding-and-benchmark-rigging-about-half-of-111-records-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support 2026-10-03-reverse-mergers-undisclosed-control-blocks-free-riding-and-benchmark-rigging-abo Affected: Perry, China Valves, Anderson/CYIOS, L&L Energy, Muellerleile, Tiber Creek, Shermeta, Reger, Ambassador Capital, UBS (FCA FX), Toronto-Dominion, Hamilton. Incidental mention tagged as the conduct (about 50 retagged). About 23 records now carry no technique, among them Perry (Natural Blue consultants; moved to undisclosed control), China Valves, Idle Media, C-Bond, HF Foods, Dipp, Oh and Pappas (disclosure or kickback cases that mention a reverse merger), Citigroup Alternative Investments, BlackRock and the NYSE order (tagged as benchmark rigging), Tomahawk (a coin offering), and… Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-03-source-check--128-miscellaneous-records-churning-mismarking-hack-to-trade-smaller-techniques-and-no-tag-12-retagged-two-recorded-as-dismissed-when-the-sanctions-stand 2026-10-03-128-miscellaneous-records-churning-mismarking-hack-to-trade-smaller-techniques-a Affected: Athena Capital Research, Marcus, Briner, Bresner, Darrigo, Wanger, Cedrone, Kliushin, Koski, LeadFX, and 118 others. Wrong tag (12). Athena's order charges marking the Nasdaq close; a quoted regulator alert had caused the pinning tag. Marcus and Briner (a "money pass" of 1,248 pre-arranged futures trades) were tagged shell hijacking because a law society held a firm in custodianship; they are now matched orders. Fouke (churning only in an indictment recital) and both Hallas records (unsuitability and theft) lost churning. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-audit--1045-of-2428-records-now-checked-against-their-primary-documents 2026-10-02-1-045-of-2-428-records-now-checked-against-their-primary-documents Affected: the case records for eight technique groups: paid stock promotion, wash trading and matched orders, boiler rooms with fake press releases and newsletter scalping, unregistered distributions, insider trading, pump and dump with price manipulation, spoofing and layering, and Ponzi schemes. Each group's findings are in the separate entries that follow. What was read. Each record was opened and compared with its primary document. Paid stock promotion: 129 of 129 records read, 64 (50%) carried a tag the document did not support. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT audit https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-removal--thirteen-cftc-summaries-and-notices-that-were-not-enforcement-actions-deleted-from-the-case-library 2026-10-02-thirteen-cftc-summaries-and-notices-that-were-not-enforcement-actions-deleted-fr Affected: thirteen records. Five were the CFTC's annual enforcement-results announcement for fiscal 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017, filed under respondent-style names (for example "MF Global" and "Navinder Sarao") although each announcement summarises many unrelated actions and names no respondent. The other eight were summary-style or non-case records that the audit had retitled: the CFTC's fiscal 2018, 2019 and two fiscal 2020 reports, a director's departure, a task-force announcement, a whistleblower alert and a prediction-markets advisory. What was wrong. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT removal https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-statistics--counts-and-charts-in-thirteen-posts-and-five-technique-pages-recomputed-after-the-audit-124-case-titles-and-91-filing-dates-corrected 2026-10-02-counts-and-charts-in-thirteen-posts-and-five-technique-pages-recomputed-after-th Affected: Spoofing enforcement since 2015, charted, What the enforcement record is made of, Pump and dump has moved to Telegram, Eleven records, one chat group pump, Fourteen front-running records, Nine of twenty-five churning records, Reverse merger gatekeepers, the Hunt brothers, celebrity touting, mismarking, hack-to-trade, short-selling and Rule 105 posts, and the technique pages for analyst manipulation, hack to trade, mismarking, Rule 105 offering shorts and sham tender offers. Why. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT statistics https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--paid-stock-promotion-64-of-129-records-did-not-describe-undisclosed-paid-promotion 2026-10-02-paid-stock-promotion-64-of-129-records-did-not-describe-undisclosed-paid-promoti Affected: 129 records read; 64 retagged. Among them Esposito (2016-18), Carnovale (2021-24), Stubos, Moynes, Abujudeh, Aegis Capital, Wilson-Davis and Matin. Wrong tag. Records said "paid stock promotion" because a release mentions promoters. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--53-of-132-wash-trading-and-matched-orders-records-described-a-different-matter-and-eleven-more-had-the-two-techniques-swapped 2026-10-02-53-of-132-wash-trading-and-matched-orders-records-described-a-different-matter-a Affected: 132 records read; 64 retagged or detagged. Among them Betterment, Wealthfront, Honeywell, Pyxus, Wells Fargo Advisors, optionsXpress, Wedbush, Daniel Fingerhut, Gregg Smith and Coinsquare. Compliance mentions. Six suspicious-activity-report failure orders (Archipelago, Canaccord, Lightspeed, OTC Link, Paulson, SpeedRoute), Wedbush's market-access order and the OSC RBC/TD foreign-exchange-controls settlements named wash trading only as a red flag. Openmarkets is a surveillance failure. Tags removed. Not market conduct. "Wash sale" in Betterment and Wealthfront is the tax rule. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--boiler-rooms-fake-press-releases-and-newsletter-scalping-18-of-106-records-carried-the-wrong-tag-20-a-wrong-money-figure-and-61-a-truncated-or-split-defendant-name 2026-10-02-boiler-rooms-fake-press-releases-and-newsletter-scalping-18-of-106-records-carri Affected: 106 records read. Among those retagged or corrected: CFTC fiscal 2014 results summary (deleted), Guarino, Sterling Grace and Casale, McDuff, Anglim, Turbo Global, Fisher Capital, International Enterprise, Advanced Trading Workshop, Deutsche Bank Securities, Mizuho and Oxford City (2015). Bystander mentions. MF Global is an annual-results roundup. The documents for Guarino, Casale, McDuff and Anglim mention boiler rooms only as the respondent's history or someone else's conduct; Turbo Global's order recalls a 1999 boiler-room case. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--unregistered-distributions-21-of-160-records-carried-the-tag-without-a-section-5-finding-and-many-carried-the-wrong-money-status-or-names 2026-10-02-unregistered-distributions-21-of-160-records-carried-the-tag-without-a-section-5 Affected: 160 records read; the tag was removed from 21. Among them OTC Link, Cambria Capital, COR Clearing, Chardan, Advanced Cell, Sheehan, Coldicutt, Emrich; status and money fixes include Lexington/Pierce, Sason, Dobrovodsky and Bandimere. Bystander mention, not a Section 5 charge. OTC Link, Cambria, COR, Chardan and Basmagy are suspicious-activity-report failures; "unregistered distribution" is a red flag in the firm's own compliance policy. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--insider-trading-in-a-sample-of-about-150-of-725-records-wrong-tags-and-wrong-outcomes-were-common-and-over-half-of-the-high-risk-ones-were-the-wrong-matter 2026-10-02-insider-trading-in-a-sample-of-about-150-of-725-records-wrong-tags-and-wrong-out Affected: about 150 of 725 records read (a sample, not the full group); 44 retagged. Among them Cochran, Horsey, Bermingham, Mathew, Dhanani, Royal Bank of Canada, Charter, Zilkha, Wells Fargo Advisors, S.A.C. Capital Advisors, Artis and Matthew Clark. Boilerplate and policy mentions. Four FCA prohibition notices carried the tag only because standard guidance lists "insider dealing"; the conduct is sexual assault, voyeurism, and EURIBOR and LIBOR fixing. RBC's tribunal settlement lists front running, layering and wash trades as guidance only, and Staff alleged none of them. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--pump-and-dump-and-price-manipulation-25-records-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support-and-many-carried-another-defendants-figures-or-no-real-defendant-name 2026-10-02-pump-and-dump-and-price-manipulation-25-records-carried-a-tag-the-document-does- Affected: 217 records read (111 of 125 pump-and-dump and 109 of 131 price-manipulation, with three in both); 49 retagged. Among them Aegis Capital, Albert Fried, Wilson-Davis, Canaccord Genuity LLC, Vandham, Einstein Investments, Proctor, Mulholland, Brian Hunter, Adam Flavin, Jaberian and Glencore. AML failures tagged pump and dump. Aegis, Albert Fried, Wilson-Davis, Canaccord ($20 million), SpeedRoute and Vandham are suspicious-activity-report cases; pump and dump, spoofing or wash sales appear only as red flags the firm failed to report. Tags removed (Vandham keeps naked short selling). Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--36-records-tagged-spoofing-or-layering-were-not-spoofing-or-layering-and-36-carried-wrong-money 2026-10-02-36-records-tagged-spoofing-or-layering-were-not-spoofing-or-layering-and-36-carr Affected: 128 records read; 36 retagged. Among them CFTC FY2016 results summary (deleted), FY2017 results summary (deleted), FY2019 report (deleted), FY2020 record year (deleted), ANZ, Tillage, Giltman, Sotnikov 2020, Cetera, Archipelago, Royal Bank of Canada and JPMorgan (CFTC). "Spoofed" meant something else. Annual-results releases and a director's departure mention spoofing only in passing. Giltman and Sotnikov concern fake-CD websites that imitated banks. Cambridge, Cetera, KMS and M Holdings are customer-information safeguards cases with a footnote defining a "spoofed" phishing email. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-10-02-source-check--ponzi-schemes-of-147-records-read-20-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support-12-were-wrongly-dismissed-and-47-had-wrong-money 2026-10-02-ponzi-schemes-of-147-records-read-20-carried-a-tag-the-document-does-not-support Affected: 147 of 602 records read (a sample, not the full group). Among those corrected: Bradon Technologies, Solar Income Fund, Paramount Equity, Nova Tech, Feng, TD Bank, BOKF, Morgan Stanley, Palmer and Bandimere. Bystander tags removed (20). Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-29-source-check--a-reverse-merger-tag-applied-to-a-gun-jumping-case-and-two-defendant-names-spliced-together 2026-09-29-a-reverse-merger-tag-applied-to-a-gun-jumping-case-and-two-defendant-names-splic Affected: the case records for Canaccord Genuity Inc. and Delaney Equity Group LLC, David Delaney and Ian Kass; found while fact-checking a new blog post against the 59 records tagged reverse merger schemes. Wrong tag, Canaccord. The order's only mention of a reverse merger is a single background sentence — the unnamed issuer "completed a reverse merger with another company" in December 2011, two years before the conduct actually charged. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-29-source-check--nine-of-25-churning-records-describe-something-else-and-two-carry-a-misattributed-dollar-figure 2026-09-29-nine-of-25-churning-records-describe-something-else-and-two-carry-a-misattribute Affected: the case records for NPA Asset Management, Royal Alliance Associates, SagePoint Financial and FSC Securities, Waddell & Reed, Canterbury Consulting, Bennett Group Financial Services and Dawn Bennett, William Quigley, Carla Lea Chastain, American Portfolios Financial Services and American Portfolios Advisors, FCA v. Edward Booth, and William C. Gennity and Rocco Roveccio (2018); found while fact-checking a new blog post against all 25 records tagged churning. Reverse churning, not churning. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-29-source-check--six-front-running-records-checked-against-their-primary-document-five-mistagged-one-records-a-conviction-as-a-dismissal 2026-09-29-six-front-running-records-checked-against-their-primary-document-five-mistagged- Affected: the case records for Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Mizuho Securities USA, ASIC v. UBS Securities, Judy K. Wolf, Sean Wygovsky and Christopher Matthaei and Sergei Polevikov, et al.; found while fact-checking a new blog post against all 14 records tagged front running. Boilerplate mistags. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-29-source-check--ten-of-eleven-records-tagged-chat-group-pumps-were-the-wrong-matter-and-the-keyword-rule-that-produced-them-fired-on-the-bare-mention-of-a-messaging-platform 2026-09-29-ten-of-eleven-records-tagged-chat-group-pumps-were-the-wrong-matter-and-the-keyw Affected: the case records for BarnBridge DAO, Tyler Ward and Troy Murray, Flyfish Club, LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Ontario Securities Commission v. Blockratize Inc., Jean-Noël Yves Alba, and both NanoBit records (2024, 2026); the chat group pumps technique page. The error. The keyword rule matched the bare terms "telegram group", "discord server", "chat room pump" and "whatsapp group" anywhere in a release, with no requirement that the group be the mechanism of a pump. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-20-technique-recovery--three-techniques-had-no-records-although-the-cache-held-their-cases 2026-09-20-three-techniques-had-no-records-although-the-cache-held-their-cases Affected: the EDGAR filing fraud, social media ramps and short and distort technique pages; What the enforcement record is made of; Is short selling manipulation?; Pump and dump has moved to Telegram; and the counts in Spoofing enforcement since 2015, charted. What was wrong. Fourteen of 58 techniques had no record. For three of them the fault was ours: the keyword rules did not match documents the library already held. Nothing was missing from the sources. What changed. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT technique recovery https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-20-record-fixes--garbled-respondent-names-one-record-describing-another-defendants-plea-mixed-money-figures-and-filing-dates 2026-09-20-garbled-respondent-names-one-record-describing-another-defendant-s-plea-mixed-mo Affected: about 30 case records, chiefly under the hack to trade, Rule 105 offering shorts, sham tender offers, hijacked account ramping and paid crypto market making techniques. Names and defendants. "Worldwide Capital, Inc. and and Jeffrey W. Lynn" and "Petrou and Thrasos Tommy" (the respondent is Thrasos Tommy Petrou alone) are corrected, as is the Genesis Advisory record. The Mohamed/Wong record, which held eighteen defendants as one garbled name, now lists all eighteen, the Northern District of Georgia and the release's "more than $1 million" gain. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT record fixes https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-20-source-check--a-173-billion-hsbc-penalty-that-was-not-hsbcs-and-unsourced-claims-in-older-posts 2026-09-20-a-1-73-billion-hsbc-penalty-that-was-not-hsbc-s-and-unsourced-claims-in-older-po Affected: Hunt brothers and the silver corner, LIBOR and benchmark design, Spoofing enforcement since 2015, charted, The anatomy of a spoofing case and Pump and dump has moved to Telegram. HSBC $1.73 billion, wrong. The case record for the CFTC's HSBC "cash versus derivatives" matter draws on release 8822-23, which is the CFTC's fiscal 2023 enforcement results summary. That release states a $45 million penalty against HSBC Bank USA; the $1,733,838,372 figure it mentions belongs to a different case. The Hunt and LIBOR posts no longer cite it. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT source check https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-20--our-own-repair-script-emptied-31-cftc-penalties-and-five-record-and-post-errors 2026-09-20-our-own-repair-script-emptied-31-cftc-penalties-and-five-record-and-post-errors Affected: 31 CFTC case records that showed no penalty from 2026-09-17 until today, including the matters against Glencore, Vitol, Navinder Sarao and five banks in the benchmark case; four further case records; and four older blog posts. The error. On 2026-09-17 we re-ran a repair script to fix a penalty-extraction bug (DECISIONS.md §22). For CFTC records the script re-read only the release body, but the CFTC source takes a penalty from the headline's "Pay $X" when the body states none. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-10--100-accountants-and-attorneys-were-recorded-as-having-run-schemes-their-clients-ran 2026-09-10-100-accountants-and-attorneys-were-recorded-as-having-run-schemes-their-clients- Affected: 100 case records, most under the reverse merger schemes and undisclosed control blocks technique pages, naming accounting firms and attorneys including BDO USA, KPMG, Baker Tilly, Friedman LLP and named individual CPAs and lawyers. A further 21 records, mostly Rule 102(e) suspensions duplicating conduct already recorded from a separate litigation release, were also removed. The error. These were SEC Rule 102(e) orders — proceedings that bar an accountant or attorney from practising before the Commission. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-09--the-touting-rule-was-still-wrong-and-95-records-carried-the-wrong-technique 2026-09-09-the-touting-rule-was-still-wrong-and-95-records-carried-the-wrong-technique Affected: the paid stock promotion technique page and every case that was tagged with it in error — 95 records, of which three were removed from the library entirely because promotion was the only technique they had been given. The error. The keyword rule for paid stock promotion matched the bare term "touting". It fired on any boast. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/corrections/#2026-09-08--a-case-was-described-as-stock-promotion-when-it-was-accounting-fraud 2026-09-08-a-case-was-described-as-stock-promotion-when-it-was-accounting-fraud Affected: Is short selling market manipulation? and Pump and dump has moved to Telegram. The error. Both posts cited SEC litigation release LR-25195 as a paid stock promotion action carrying a $62 million penalty. It is not a promotion case at all. It concerns accounting irregularities at a large food company, and our classifier had tagged it paid stock promotion because the release states that the company "touted" purported cost savings to the market — the word appearing in an accounting context rather than a promotional one. The cause. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT