Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission is named in 77 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1934 to 2026.
Securities and Exchange Commission on the timeline
77 events · 1934–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | Fourth Documented Iran-Announcement Oil Short: $920M in WTI/Brent Shorts at 3:40 AM ET, 70 Minutes Before Axios 'Memorandum of Understanding' Report; ~$125M Profit by 7:00 AM
5 src Donald Trump · The Kobeissi Letter · Axios · Commodity Futures Trading Commission · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | SEC Settles Tron Fraud Case — Rainberry Pays $10M, Justin Sun Personal Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · Rainberry Inc. · Tron Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | SEC Chair Atkins Grilled by Congress Over 60% Crypto Enforcement Decline
2 src Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Maxine Waters · House Financial Services Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | SEC Denies All Whistleblower Award Claims in First Quarter of FY2026
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-01 | SEC Cuts PCAOB Budget 9.4%, Slashes Board Compensation by Half
2 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-31 | SEC Chair Atkins Appoints Trump Loyalists to PCAOB Accounting Oversight Board
3 src Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Demetrios Logothetis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-01 | Trump Administration Drops 100+ Corporate Enforcement Actions, Penalties Fall 97 Percent
9 src Trump Administration · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
4 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims
2 src Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton
2 src Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | White House Releases Comprehensive Crypto Policy Roadmap
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · David Sacks · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-28 | SEC chair attended Don Jr.'s party before SEC granted Don Jr.-backed gun company approval to go public
4 src Donald Trump Jr. · Paul Atkins · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DOGE Pushes SEC to Loosen Wall Street Regulations on SPACs and Reporting
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-03 | Trump's Truth Social Takes Step Toward Launching Bitcoin ETF with NYSE Arca Filing
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yorkville America Digital · Foris DAX Trust Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | SEC offers $50,000 buyouts to staff investigating Elon Musk
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | SEC pauses Justin Sun investigation after $75M Trump investment
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | SEC Declares Meme Coins Not Subject to Securities Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC Division of Corporation Finance | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | US SEC, Tron founder Justin Sun explore resolution of civil fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Coinbase says SEC intends to drop lawsuit against crypto exchange
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gary Gensler · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Consensys SEC case dropped after $100,000 inauguration donation
5 src Consensys · Donald Trump · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Executive Order Pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement
4 src Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun Becomes First White House Crypto Dinner Guest After $75 Million Investment
3 src Justin Sun · Donald Trump · Trump Family · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network
4 src Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-19 | SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · View, Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push
3 src Cryptocurrency Industry Consortium · Financial Stability Board · European Securities and Markets Authority · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS limits SEC use of in-house tribunals for civil penalties (SEC v. Jarkesy)
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Securities and Exchange Commission · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Neil Gorsuch (concurring) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement
5 src Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet Files for Bankruptcy: Former NSA Director Keith Alexander's $1.2B Cybersecurity Venture Collapses, SEC Charges Follow
2 src Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · Securities and Exchange Commission · Matthew Olsen | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-18 | SEC Charges DWAC with Securities Fraud, Imposes $18 Million Penalty
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-22 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Fires CEO Patrick Orlando Amid SEC Investigation
3 src Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · DWAC · Trump Media & Technology Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void
3 src Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-05 | Voyager Digital Files Bankruptcy After Three Arrows Capital Collapse, Exposing Crypto Lending Contagion and Regulatory Failure
3 src Voyager Digital · Three Arrows Capital · Securities and Exchange Commission · BlockFi · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-21 | SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton · VectoIQ Acquisition Corp (SPAC) | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-22 | SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
4 src Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-29 | Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception
3 src Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
3 src Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-30 | WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
3 src Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-07 | Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach
3 src John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
4 src ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network
4 src Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-03 | S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010
3 src Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss
4 src Curt Schilling · 38 Studios LLC · Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation · Lincoln Chafee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges
2 src Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
4 src Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
5 src Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · Harry Markopolos | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges
4 src Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
2 src Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
2 src New Century Financial Corporation · Brad Morrice · David Einhorn · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time
4 src Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Creates Consolidated Supervised Entities Program Allowing Unlimited Investment Bank Leverage
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Bear Stearns · Lehman Brothers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Christopher Cox · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Net Capital Rule Change Enables Investment Bank Leverage Explosion Fueling Housing Bubble
9 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts
4 src Investment banks · Securities Analysts · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-07 | Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry
4 src Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · Arthur Levitt · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years
3 src Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Spencer Barasch · Stanford Financial Group | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff · Avellino & Bienes · H. David Kotz | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-01 | Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bear Stearns · Securities and Exchange Commission · Edgar Bronfman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | confirmed |
Appears in curated timelines
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
20× shared
CFTC
9× shared
Department of Justice
9× shared
Trump Administration
8× shared
Paul Atkins
7× shared
Justin Sun
6× shared
Federal Trade Commission
5× shared
Trump Media & Technology Group
5× shared
U.S. Department of Justice
5× shared
World Liberty Financial
5× shared
Bear Stearns
4× shared
Digital World Acquisition Corp
4× shared
Goldman Sachs
4× shared
Trevor Milton
4× shared
Bernie Madoff
3× shared
Celsius Network
3× shared
Elizabeth Warren
3× shared
FTX
3× shared
Lehman Brothers
3× shared
Merrill Lynch
3× shared
Morgan Stanley
3× shared
Nikola Corporation
3× shared
Patrick Orlando
3× shared
Three Arrows Capital
3× shared
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