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Banc of California CEO Resigns Amid SEC Inquiry

January 24, 2017

Steven Sugarman, who built Banc of California into a prominent regional lender, resigned as Chairman and CEO Monday - same day that the Irvine bank announced it's under investigation by the SEC. The bank offered no explanation for Sugarman’s resignation, but the move - and the SEC investigation -  could relate to continued fallout from questions about connections between bank insiders and a convicted fraudster.

 

The SEC issued a formal investigative order and a subpoena, demanding information related to an October press release that laid out a response to a blogger’s allegations that the bank was connected to and possibly controlled by Jason Galanis, an L.A. financier who pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges over the summer. In that 10/18/16 release, the bank reported that board members had hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation of the blogger’s allegations. On Monday, the bank acknowledged that the investigation had, in fact, been initiated and overseen by the bank’s management, not its board.