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Insider trading ring charged by SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced insider trading charges against a Silicon Valley trading ring whose members generated nearly $1.7 million in illegal profits and losses avoided by trading on the confidential earnings information of two local technology companies.

The SEC’s complaint alleges that Nathaniel Brown, who served as the revenue recognition manager for Infinera Corporation, repeatedly tipped Infinera’s unannounced quarterly earnings and financial performance to his best friend, Benjamin Wylam, from April 2016 until Brown left the company in November 2017. Wylam, a high school teacher and bookmaker, traded on this information and also tipped Naveen Sood, who owed Wylam a six-figure gambling debt. Sood allegedly traded on this information and tipped his three friends Marcus Bannon, Matthew Rauch, and Naresh Ramaiya, each of whom also illegally traded on the information. Bannon, Rauch, and Ramaiya consented to the entry of final judgments without admitting or denying the allegations in the complaint. Bannon agreed to pay a civil penalty of $281,497, Rauch agreed to pay $128,230, and Ramaiya agreed to pay $65,780. Sood also consented to the entry of a final judgment and agreed to pay a civil penalty of $178,320.

In parallel proceedings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced related criminal charges against Brown, Wylam, and Sood.

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