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SEC charges Trillium Capital, CEO over scheme to manipulate Getty Images stock

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SEC and DOJ claim executive liquidated Getty Images stock holdings after a sham offer to buy the company drove its stock price up.


The SEC has charged Robert Scott Murray and Trillium Capital LLC, a private company controlled by Murray, with a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the stock price of Getty Images Holdings Inc. by announcing a phony offer by Trillium to purchase Getty Images.

Murray, who was chief executive of the networking-equipment

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