Statement on the Law360 Coverage
Trade-press headlines tracked filings and verdicts. The full context — dismissal, registration-only theory, pending appeal — was rarely the top line.
Updated June 16, 2026
The Law360 archive is accurate as of the day each piece was published. Read together, it shows a different story than any one headline suggests.
Law360 has covered the various Gentile-related matters across roughly a decade. Some of those pieces still rank highly on Google for my name. Read together, they show a case dismissed criminally in 2017, narrowed civilly to a registration-only theory, and now on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit. Read in isolation, an indictment-era headline looks like the end of the story. It is not.
— Guy Gentile
Five facts to read alongside the archive
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The New Jersey criminal indictment was dismissed, not tried.
A federal grand jury returned the indictment on March 23, 2016 concerning alleged conduct ending in 2008. On January 30, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed it on statute-of-limitations grounds. This was not a jury acquittal.
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The Miami SEC case was separate and civil.
The SEC filed the separate civil action in the Southern District of Florida on March 22, 2021. After a ten-day civil trial, a Miami jury found Gentile liable as a control person of SureTrader and for inducing its broker-dealer registration violations on July 2, 2024.
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The October 17, 2025 final judgment is on appeal.
Final judgment in the Miami civil case was entered on October 17, 2025. The judgment is presently on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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No criminal conviction. No industry bar.
Guy Gentile has never been convicted of a crime and has never been barred from the securities industry. FINRA BrokerCheck (CRD #3173560) reflects that record.
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Law360 covers litigation events, not findings of guilt.
Trade-press headlines often track filings and verdicts in isolation. Read in context, the record shows a New Jersey criminal indictment dismissed in 2017 and a distinct Miami SEC civil liability verdict entered in 2024, followed by final judgment in 2025 and an appeal.