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 2016 federal indictment was dismissed in 2017.
Chief Judge Jose L. Linares dismissed the District of New Jersey indictment in January 2017 for pre-indictment delay under the Sixth Amendment. The Government did not appeal. Law360 reported the dismissal at the time; the older indictment-era pieces still rank above it on Google.
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The SEC case was a registration case, not a fraud case.
The 2021 SEC civil case in the Southern District of Florida went to trial on the narrow question of whether SureTrader, a Bahamas-licensed broker-dealer, also required U.S. registration. The jury was not asked to find — and did not find — fraud, market manipulation, or investor losses.
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The 2024 judgment is on appeal.
The monetary judgment is presently on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The appeal raises whether control-person status — without personal receipt — can support disgorgement under Liu v. SEC and Sripetch.
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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 #2960715) 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 same coverage shows a case that was dismissed criminally, then narrowed to a registration question civilly, and is now on appeal.