A long story, but in the summer of 2007, I guest conducted the world renowned NY Philharmonic at a public performance before an audience of more than 1500 people. I conducted Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance #8 in G Minor.
This AI variation is more fitting for the summer of 2026.
DOJ and SEC win stock spoofing securities fraud lawsuit. On June 25, Mingran Wang pleaded guilty to an alleged multi-year securities-fraud scheme involving more than 3,000 instances of “spoofing” between 2021 and 2024 and agreed to forfeit more than $1.3 million in proceeds. He faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on September 30, 2026.
Wang pleaded guilty to one count of using interstate commerce for the purpose of securities fraud in violation of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.
On the civil side, Wang consented to a judgment permanently enjoining him from violating the antifraud and anti-manipulation provisions (Sections 17(a)(1) and (3) of the Securities Act of 1933, and Sections 10(b) and 9(a)(2) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder), imposing a five-year brokerage-account notification requirement, and leaving disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties to be set later.
DOJ - https://t.co/EFQSx9pk20
SEC - https://t.co/gdQZ4GgdbJ
In response to the DOJ and SEC actions, Sullivan & Cromwell said "Spoofing prosecutions remain robust and frequently proceed in parallel across civil and criminal regulators. The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is prosecuting the DOJ case, continuing the Section’s prominent nationwide focus on spoofing and market manipulation, and has regularly brought spoofing matters in coordination with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement (whose Market Abuse Unit investigated the SEC case here) and, in the commodities and derivatives context, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission."
https://t.co/mGyol6hvwK
Thank you @DOJCrimDiv@SECGov for taking actions to protect investors against spoofing and market manipulation.
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