SEC v. Craig.
On November 5, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed securities charges against James Alan Craig, a 62-year-old Scottish trader.[1] The SEC’s complaint concerns Craig’s use of Twitter accounts to commit securities fraud by making false statements about publicly traded companies in order to manipulate the price of those companies’ exchange-traded securities. Just as the SEC warned in the investor alert of fraudsters who conceal their true identities by mimicking credible sources of market information, the complaint alleges that Craig created the Twitter accounts to mislead the public into believing that tweets issued from those accounts were from established securities research firms. … Read the rest