The SEC charged Justin Jennings and Vortex Strategies LLC with insider trading based on material nonpublic information Jennings allegedly misappropriated from his romantic partner, who worked at a strategic communications and investor relations firm. The SEC alleged Jennings accessed information from her work-issued laptop about M&A, earnings, and other corporate events involving public-company clients and traded in eight public companies, generating approximately $2.7 million in illicit profits; parallel criminal charges were also announced.