Every civil enforcement action the SEC has filed since 1996 — 11,828 releases. Defendants in title; PDF complaints + final judgments + consent orders linked per release. The canonical 'you got caught' securities registry: fraud, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, registration violations, market manipulation, FCPA. Hidden behind sec.gov/litigation/litreleases (HTML, no JSON/RSS API). Activist funds, plaintiff law firms, FCPA reporters live on this data.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/sec/litigation/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/sec-litigation-releases
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/sec/litigation/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/sec-litigation-releases'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: US Securities and Exchange Commission
Primary source: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

SEC, litigation release, civil enforcement, securities fraud, insider trading, Ponzi scheme, FCPA, market manipulation

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_sec_litigation_releases_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/sec-litigation-releases},
  note   = {Derived from US Securities and Exchange Commission. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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