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Municipal Securities Cases and Materials: MCDC Initiative

Aug. 18, 2020

Office of Municipal Securities

August 2020

This compilation of Municipal Securities Cases and Materials was prepared by the Office of Municipal Securities of the Securities and Exchange Commission. This compilation covers enforcement actions brought by the Commission in conjunction with the Municipal Continuing Disclosure Cooperative (“MCDC”) Initiative in 2015 and 2016.[1] The links below contain the full text of certain Commission orders/opinions, administrative law judge decisions, and litigation releases, as well as federal court decisions, involving participants in municipal securities transactions. In some instances, the linked document is a determination of fact and law following a hearing; in others, findings made by the Commission in a settled proceeding in which the named party has neither admitted nor denied the findings, but consented to entry of the order. In still other instances, such as a complaint, the document may consist of allegations.

The compilation organizes enforcement actions by relevant participants to municipal securities transactions or topics. However, inclusion under a particular heading does not limit in any manner the relevance of the document to other participants or topics.

While this compilation provides an extensive review of Commission activity in the municipal securities market for the relevant period, it does not purport to be exhaustive. It also does not include actions by private parties under the federal securities laws arising from municipal securities transactions, or Commission and private actions under the antifraud and other sections of the federal securities law arising from transactions not involving municipal securities. Such materials may also be useful to the reader.

Please visit the official Office of Municipal Securities webpage, maintained by the Commission, at www.sec.gov/municipal for more information related to the Commission’s activities regarding municipal securities.

Issuers

Commission Orders – Settled Administrative Proceedings

Alabama

Alaska

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

  • In the Matter of East Ouachita Parish School District of the Parish of Ouachita, State of Louisiana, Securities Act of 1933 Release No. 10160, Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-17453 (Aug. 24, 2016).

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Underwriters

Commission Orders – Settled Administrative Proceedings[2]


[1] The MCDC Initiative encouraged issuers and underwriters to self-report disclosure violations under the securities laws in exchange for more favorable settlement terms. More information regarding the program is available through an SEC Press Release and SEC Enforcement Division Announcement. More information regarding the enforcement actions brought against seventy-one municipal issuers is available within this SEC Press Release.

[2] More information regarding the first wave of Commission enforcement actions brought against thirty-six underwriting firms is available within this SEC Press Release. In all, seventy-two underwriting firms were charged under the MCDC Initiative. The completion of the municipal underwriter enforcement sweep is detailed within this SEC Press Release.

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