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SEC v. John Feloni and Stock Squirrel, Inc. (2024)

Judgment entered

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In February 2024 the SEC announced a judgment against John Feloni and Stock Squirrel, Inc.. On 8 February 2024 final judgments by consent were entered against Feloni and his app company in the $2.5 million offering case, imposing $1,719,871 of joint disgorgement, about $158,840 of interest, a $223,229 civil penalty on Feloni, a penny-stock bar and an officer-and-director bar. Ponzi-like payments appear only as one allegation.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-25940
Date filed 2024-02-12
Date resolved 2024-02-12
Court U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Status judgment
Asset class equities
Criminal parallel No
Bars imposed penny stock bar
Defendants John Feloni (individual) ; Stock Squirrel, Inc. (entity)
Cited as charged or alleged Exchange Act s.10(b) and Rule 10b-5 ; Securities Act s.5 (statutes and rules cited in the document; not a finding that they were violated)
Techniques

What was ordered

Civil penalty
$223k
Disgorgement
$1.7m
Prejudgment interest
$159k
Total relief
$2.1m
Alleged gain
—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on February 12, 2024 as release LR-25940. On 8 February 2024 final judgments by consent were entered against Feloni and his app company in the $2.5 million offering case, imposing $1,719,871 of joint disgorgement, about $158,840 of interest, a $223,229 civil penalty on Feloni, a penny-stock bar and an officer-and-director bar. Ponzi-like payments appear only as one allegation.

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.

The relief recorded in our data is a civil penalty of $223,229, disgorgement of $1,719,871, prejudgment interest of $158,840, as the release or order states it. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

Non-monetary relief recorded: penny stock bar.

Timeline

  1. 2024-02-12 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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Same matter

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Date filed Agency Record Status
2023-09-29 SEC SEC v. John Feloni and Stock Squirrel, Inc. (2023) Settled
2024-02-12 SEC SEC v. John Feloni and Stock Squirrel, Inc. (2024)(this record) Judgment entered

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