SEC v. Jehu Hand and Antonio Katz (pump and dump, 2017)

Judgment entered

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In June 2017 the SEC announced a complaint against California attorney Jehu Hand and Antonio Katz over the Greenway Technology pump and dump, alleging false legal opinion letters. A final judgment as to Hand was entered on July 29, 2019, permanently barring him from penny stock offerings and enjoining him. He was separately convicted in a criminal case and sentenced to 66 months.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

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Prejudgment interest

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Total relief

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Alleged gain

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What is alleged to have happened

the Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on June 15, 2017 as release LR-23858. The respondents named are Jehu Hand and Antonio Katz (2 individuals, 0 entities).

The release reports a co-defendant's guilty plea in the Greenway pump and dump alleged in the SEC complaint; no concealed-payment allegation is made.

This library tags the matter as pump and dump and unregistered distributions, based on the conduct the regulator describes. Each tag links to a page explaining how that technique works, what statute it engages, and what penalties comparable actions have attracted. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

The conduct is recorded against equities.

Non-monetary relief recorded: penny stock bar.

The release references a parallel criminal proceeding. Where a criminal case exists, the civil and criminal outcomes are recorded separately, because they resolve on different standards of proof.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

Outcome: SEC litigation release LR-24566 reports that the District of Massachusetts entered a final judgment as to Hand on July 29, 2019, by consent. It permanently bars him from participating in penny stock offerings and enjoins him from further violations of the antifraud provisions and the registration provisions. The release also reports his May 2018 criminal conviction and a 66-month prison term; the criminal fine and restitution it mentions are criminal sanctions, not stored here as civil amounts. The release states no civil disgorgement or penalty figure for Hand. It does not cover co-defendant Antonio Katz, whose outcome was not checked. Checked on 2026-10-04.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with 2 techniques in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

• Pump and dump — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.
• Unregistered distributions — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.

Timeline

1. 2017-06-15 Litigation release published
2. 2019-07-29 Final judgment entered as to Jehu Hand

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• SEC litigation release on the Hand judgment (LR-24566)

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Same matter

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This grouping is the library's, made by matching names, techniques, dates and citations when the site is built. It is not the regulator's or a court's determination that the records are one case, and it errs towards missing a link rather than making a false one.

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.