James A. Scoggins II
Securities and Exchange Commission
Jay Scoggins has been an Assistant Regional Director for the Enforcement Division's Market Abuse Unit (“MAU”) in the Denver office of the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2010. The MAU investigates matters involving abusive market practices that harm or threaten the fair and efficient operation of securities markets on a large scale, focusing on suspected abuses of market structure (including violations by exchanges, other market centers, and market professionals), large scale insider trading rings, large cap market manipulations (including by high-frequency/algorithmic trading firms), abusive short selling, and other abusive market conduct. Mr. Scoggins joined the SEC's Denver Office in April 2000 as a Staff Attorney and later served as a Branch Chief. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Scoggins was a Deputy District Attorney for Colorado's 17th Judicial District (Adams County Colorado). Mr. Scoggins received his J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in 1996 and a B.A. from the North Carolina State University in 1993.
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