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On August 3, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia entered a final judgment against Wisdom Capital Management Group Ltd., a purported investment adviser, for making material misrepresentations and unsubstantiated statements in filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The judgment orders the defendant to pay a civil penalty of $1,152,316. The SEC filed its complaint on August 20, 2024, alleging that Wisdom made false claims in its December 2023 Form ADV filing. Specifically, Wisdom claimed it was an Exempt Reporting Adviser managing $10 million in private funds in the United States, advised two private funds, and operated from office space on Wall Street in New York City. The SEC alleged that these representations were materially false. The current business resident at the claimed New York office space had no knowledge of Wisdom or its management personnel. Additionally, the SEC found no evidence that a separate registered investment adviser had reported information about the two purported private funds, and searches of the SEC's public company database and filings yielded no information about Wisdom or the funds. Wisdom failed to respond to SEC requests for records to substantiate the information contained in its Form ADV filing. The final judgment, entered by default, enjoins Wisdom from future violations of Sections 204(a) and 207 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The judgment also prohibits Wisdom, its owners, and executive officers from filing a Form ADV as an Exempt Reporting Adviser. The SEC's investigation, conducted by staff from the SEC's Boston Regional Office, remains ongoing.