Along with Dunlap and several other officers, the SEC also sued Phillip Harlow at Sunbeam's accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.

For two years, Drexel insisted that nothing illegal occurred, even when the SEC formally sued Drexel in 1988.

The SEC sued Mr Stanford and two associates this month, accusing them of running a multi-billion dollar fraud through SIB.

"SEC Sues Missing Money Manager Arthur Nadel", Chicago Tribune (January 22, 2009)

The SEC also sued three of CIBC's executives.

Stansberry sought to shed light on the controversy in a 2010 self-authored, third party blog piece entitled "Why The SEC Sued Me-And Why You Should Care."

The SEC is suing the former chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Richard Syron and Daniel Mudd) over disclosures they made about sub-prime loans.

In 1971 the SEC sued, after which Posner then agreed not to sit on any pension board for any of his companies.

In December 2006, the SEC sued Gryphon Partners, a hedge fund, for insider trading and naked short-selling involving PIPEs in the unregistered stock of 35 companies.

The SEC then sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the "virtual stock exchange" was in effect a Ponzi scheme.