SEC v. Aaron Cain McKnight and others (2023)

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In March 2023 the SEC charged Aaron Cain McKnight, BPM Global Investments, LLC and 5 others. The complaint alleges that McKnight ran three investment schemes that took more than $8.4 million from at least 28 investors, using the money for personal and business expenses and, in part, payments to earlier investors. Only Sims settled, by a bifurcated consent judgment; the other claims are pending.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency	SEC
Release number	LR-25677
Date filed	2023-03-27
Court	U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Status	filed
Criminal parallel	No
Bars imposed	conduct-based injunction
Defendants	Aaron Cain McKnight (individual) ; BPM Global Investments, LLC (entity) ; BPM Asset Management, LLC (entity) ; Sherry Rebekka Sims (individual) ; Harmony Brooke McKnight (individual) ; Kenneth Miller (individual) ; Frost & Miller, LLP (entity)
Cited as charged or alleged	Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ; Exchange Act s.20(a) ; Securities Act s.17(a) (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques

What was ordered

Civil penalty: —
Disgorgement: —
Prejudgment interest: —
Total relief: —
Alleged gain: —

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What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on March 27, 2023 as release LR-25677. The complaint alleges that McKnight ran three investment schemes that took more than $8.4 million from at least 28 investors, using the money for personal and business expenses and, in part, payments to earlier investors. Only Sims settled, by a bifurcated consent judgment; the other claims are pending. Ponzi-like payments are one listed use of funds, not the charge.

This library does not tag the matter as a Ponzi scheme: on a source check, the document mentions Ponzi-like payments only in passing, or as part of another party's scheme, and the charges are about something else. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

Non-monetary relief recorded: conduct-based injunction.

This matter is at the allegation stage. Nothing in the regulator's filing has been proven, and the respondents are entitled to the presumption that it has not been.

Timeline

2023-03-27 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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SEC litigation release

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Record added September 10, 2026. If this matter has since resolved, been withdrawn or been dismissed, we want to know: submit a correction.