UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCH. COMM'N v. AHMED

Nos. 21-1686, 21-1712 August Term 2022.

72 F.4th 379 (2023)

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Iftikar A. AHMED, Shalini Ahmed, I.I. 1, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I.I. 2, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I.I. 3, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I-Cubed Domains, LLC, Shalini Ahmed 2014 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, DIYA Holdings, LLC, DIYA Real Holdings, LLC, Defendants-Appellants, v. Jed Horwitt, Receiver-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 28, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent Levy ( Gregory Dubinsky , Andrew C. Indorf , on the brief), Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Iftikar A. Ahmed.

Adam G. Unikowsky ( Zachary C. Schauf , on the brief), Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants Shalini Ahmed, I.I. 1, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I.I. 2, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I.I. 3, a minor child, by and through his next friends Iftikar and Shalini Ahmed, his parents, I-Cubed Domains, LLC, Shalini Ahmed 2014 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, DIYA Holdings, LLC, DIYA Real Holdings, LLC.

Stephen G. Yoder , Senior Litigation Counsel, for Dan M. Berkovitz , General Counsel, and John W. Avery , Deputy Solicitor, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee Securities and Exchange Commission.

John L. Cesaroni , Christopher H. Blau , Stephen M. Kindseth , Zeisler & Zeisler, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, for Receiver-Appellee Jed Horwitt.

Before: Walker, Raggi, and Park, Circuit Judges.


Defendant Iftikar Ahmed defrauded his former employer and its investors of some $65 million over the span of a decade. His scheme ended in 2015 when he was indicted on unrelated insider-trading charges and a subsequent internal investigation revealed the full breadth of his wrongdoing. The Securities and Exchange Commission...

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