N.Y. General Business Law Section 339
Reporting or publishing fictitious transactions in securities

A person who, with intent to deceive, reports or publishes, or causes to be reported or published as a purchase or sale of the stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or association, any transaction therein, whereby no actual change of ownership or interest is effected, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Source: Section 339 — Reporting or publishing fictitious transactions in securities, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GBS/339 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 13, 2025).

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