SEC Litigation Releases (civil enforcement docket)

Dataset · US Securities and Exchange Commission · source URL ↗

Every civil enforcement action the SEC has filed since 1996 — 11,828 releases. Defendants in title; PDF complaints + final judgments + consent orders linked per release. The canonical 'you got caught' securities registry: fraud, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, registration violations, market manipulation, FCPA. Hidden behind sec.gov/litigation/litreleases (HTML, no JSON/RSS API). Activist funds, plaintiff law firms, FCPA reporters live on this data.

Source organization
US Securities and Exchange Commission
License / terms
Coverage
11,828 releases (LR-14644 through LR-26555, 1996-2026)
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-16
API endpoint

Keywords

SEClitigation releasecivil enforcementsecurities fraudinsider tradingPonzi schemeFCPAmarket manipulation

Provenance

The listed URL identifies a referenced source; it does not by itself document the ingestion endpoint. Referenced source URL: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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