SEC

The former municipal advisor Porter Bingham has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and two years term of supervised release following his fraudulent billing to the city of Rolling Fork, Mississippi in connection with a 2015 bond offering.

An audience poll during the National Association of Bond Lawyers' Workshop indicated that offering and disclosure fraud were among the highest concerns for the muni market.

Even without formal rules tailored to the municipal market, ESG integration will likely come to the muni market faster than expected.

Illinois-based broker dealer Ronald Molo has been fined $815,104 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest and has been permanently enjoined from participating in the issuance, purchase, offer or sale of any security.

Anthony Michael Holland has also been ordered to pay almost $1.2 million in restitution.

Meredith Hathorn's almost forty years in public finance situate her well to steward the board through the coming fiscal year.

Aaron Fletcher and his firm Twin Spires Financial have entered a final judgment with the Securities and Exchange Commission over their role in two allegedly fraudulent offerings and a failure to register as a municipal advisor.

The SEC has charged Chicago-based broker-dealer Loop Capital with providing advice to a municipal entity without registering as a municipal advisor

Municipal advisor Matthias O'Meara and his firm Choice Advisors' move to dismiss the SEC's first ever charges under MSRB Rule G-42 failed.

The SEC has charged Oppenheimer in a litigated action and settled with BNY Mellon, TD Securities and Jefferies for failing to comply with municipal bond disclosure requirements.