Holding that owner-officer who collaborated in unlawful conduct of firm may be held jointly and severally liable with firm for disgorgement of unlawful gains received
Holding that as "vice-president in charge of trading," aider and abettor "occupied a prominent position within the company[]" such that the "apparent authority exercised by [him]" created liability under agency principles
Concluding that a limitations defense did not apply to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) when it is sued to enforce securities laws, thus "vindicating public rights and furthering public interests"
Holding that the SEC need not show the likelihood of a recurring violation of securities law to obtain an injunction freezing the assets of a named defendant, since such an injunction aims only to preserve the SEC's opportunity to collect funds.
Holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to admit altered copies of a record under Rule 803 because the records indicated "a lack of trustworthiness"
Holding that where "the defendants benefitted from the use of investors' money to spend at the defendants' discretion—whether to cover operating expenses, invest in start-up companies, pay personal expenses or to pay fake returns to investors to perpetuate the fraud" all such uses of investor money represented "an ill-gotten gain that unjustly enriched the defendants"