June 20, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits accusing a hedge fund and two penny stock traders of operating as unregistered securities dealers, continuing the new Republican leadership's shift away from pursuing cases that defendants argued unlawfully expanded agency oversight.
March 13, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its claim that a Boston hedge fund should have registered as a broker-dealer, abandoning a case that the defense had argued overstepped the law and would subject more firms to federal oversight.
July 22, 2024
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday kept alive U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that Boston investment firm Auctus Fund violated securities laws by failing to register as a broker-dealer when harvesting deeply discounted shares of cash-strapped public companies through debt agreements.
June 02, 2023
Boston investment firm Auctus Fund broke securities laws by harvesting deeply discounted shares of cash-strapped public companies through debt agreements that helped the hedge fund make more than $100 million in profit over nearly a decade, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.