MassMutual fined $4 million for failing to monitor GameStop booster Kevin Gill

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Associated Press

Published: Sept. 16, 2021 astatine 5:37 p.m. ET

Gill, aka Reddit’s ‘Roaring Kitty,’ helped thrust meme-stock frenzy portion employed astatine MassMutual subsidiary

Keith Gill, besides known successful societal media forums arsenic Roaring Kitty, testifies during a virtual proceeding connected GameStop successful Washington connected Feb. 18.

House Financial Services Committee via AP

NEW YORK — Massachusetts regulators are fining MassMutual $4 cardinal and ordering it to overhaul its social-media policies aft accusing the institution of failing to supervise an worker whose online cheerleading of GameStop’s banal helped motorboat the frenzy that shook Wall Street earlier this year.

The colony announced Thursday by Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin centers connected the actions of Keith Gill, who was an worker astatine a MassMutual subsidiary from April 2019 until January 2021. His tenure ended arsenic GameStop’s...

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