August 10, 2020
A Florida federal judge on Monday approved a consent judgment against a CEO accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of inflating his company's share prices through misleading claims about fever-detecting thermal scanners, with the executive agreeing to a permanent ban from running issuers of securities and an undetermined civil fine.
June 01, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic pushes into the summer, Law360 is taking a look at the enforcement actions and trading suspensions the SEC has issued in connection with the virus since it captured the public consciousness earlier this year.
May 14, 2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took aim at two unrelated companies that purported to offer products to combat COVID-19, accusing them of defrauding the public and artificially inflating their share prices in separate enforcement actions filed Wednesday and Thursday.